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Farmers told to raise new blackgram variety
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TIRUVARURSpecial Correspondent
TIRUVARURSpecial Correspondent
Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute in Aduthurai organised a ‘field day’ recently for farmers to educate the farmers on advantages of cultivating a new blackgram variety.
The farmers were taken to on-farm trials at Soraikkavur and Ennakkudi hamlets in Kudavasal taluk where live specimen of a rice fallow pulse variety, AD (TR) BG 14003, has been cultivated. Explaining the advantages of the new variety, to be released soon by the Institute, its Director V. Ambethgar urged the farmers to opt for organic fertiliser to improve soil fertility, and take up rice fallow pulses cultivation to reap more profit with minimum investment.
‘Enhance income through cashew cultivation’
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A skill development training was organised by Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute (TRRI), Aduthurai, recently in order to draw the attention of farmers to advantages of cashew cultivation.
Around 50 farmers from Thanjavur, Tircuhi, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Cuddalore and Pudukkottai districts participated in the training on ‘Recent production and protection techniques in cashew’.
Inaugurating the three-day programme organised by the institute in coordination with the Directorate of Cashewnut and Cocoa Development, Kochi, V.Ambethgar, director, TRRI, emphasized the importance of cashew cultivation.
Dr.Ambethgar also presented a brief note on avenues available to farmers to enhance their income through integration of various enterprises.
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A plot harvest exercise conducted for ADT 52 paddy variety at Polakudi village in Nannilam taluk.
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The non-lodging nature of ‘Aduthurai 52’ (ADT 52) paddy variety is said to have been re-established during this samba season as the delta region received unseasonal and unexpected heavy rain.
Farmers in Polakudi village, Nannilam Taluk, Tiruvarur district who had taken up the cultivation of ADT 52 variety on a fairly larger area this season were taken aback as the sky opened up during December resulting in the fields getting flooded with rainwater. However, they heaved a sigh of relief on witnessing their efforts to drain rainwater from the fields churned out positive results as the standing crop did not lodge.
Farmers get expertise to become entrepreneurs
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They are told to elevate themselves from the stage of paddy producers
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They are told to elevate themselves from the stage of paddy producers
Avenues for farmers to become -entrepreneurs were explained to paddy cultivators in delta districts by experts during a three-day training programme to improve their living standards.
The Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute (TRRI) conducted the programme with funding from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Delivering the special address on the inaugural day, S. Viswanath Kanna, District Development Manager, NABARD, Tiruvarur, presented a brief account of the increasing trend of non-Basmati rice exports and exhorted the Delta farmers to elevate themselves from paddy producers to entrepreneurs.