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District Collector Rajakumari Ganiya connected Wednesday called for a monolithic enlargement of earthy farming practices crossed Nandyal district, underlining the request to reconstruct ungraded fertility and trim dependence connected chemic fertilisers.
Addressing a gathering of farmers astatine a earthy farming consciousness programme astatine Gundupapala colony successful Dornipadu mandal, the Collector said that adjacent to 90,000 farmers were presently practising earthy farming connected astir 50,000 hectares crossed the district. She appealed to the remaining farmers among the district’s 3.5 lakh assemblage to gradually follow sustainable cultivation practices.
Expressing interest implicit the excessive usage of chemic fertilisers, the Collector said that specified practices were starring to deteriorating ungraded health. “Continuous chemical-based cultivation, monocropping, and nonaccomplishment to travel harvest rotation practices are further risks,” she said. She besides highlighted the value of the PMDS (Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing) method, which keeps onshore greenish passim the twelvemonth and improves ungraded microbial enactment and moisture retention.
The Collector said that the authorities was supplying PMDS kits containing 34 varieties of seeds, including vegetables, pulses, and fodder crops. She aboriginal distributed the kits to farmers and participated successful effect pelletisation and effect broadcasting demonstrations successful a farmer’s field.
Earlier, the Collector visited a millet processing portion established by the “Srushti Rythu Group” astatine Umapathi Nagar successful Dornipadu mandal. She reviewed millet processing operations, interacted with husbandman representatives, and assured enactment for value-addition projects, including imaginable fiscal assistance for machinery and infrastructure to fortify earthy farming-based agrarian enterprises successful the district.
