Monday, September 28, 2015

Programme to popularise mat nursery technique :


The Agriculture Department has taken a special programme to popularise the mat nursery technique for transplanting the ‘samba’ nurseries in smaller landholdings for the benefit of small farmers.
The mat nursery aims at mechanisation of transplanting of nurseries from the 15th day of its germination and it ensures uniform planting of nurseries without any loss. With the district accounting for a large number of smaller landholdings, the department had evolved the strategy, said R. Chandrasekaran, Joint Director of Agriculture.
It has been planned to cover 10,600 hectares under the subsidy-based programme and a maximum of 2,000 hectares has been fixed for the Lalgudi block and 1,000 hectares for the Pullambadi block. The department sanctioned a back-end subsidy of Rs. 3,000 a hectare to farmers. Mr. Chandrasekaran said the yield would go up through this technique. The department has been organising awareness campaigns in villages to sensitise the farmers to the advantages of this mechanisation.


Source : The Hindu

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