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Thoothukudi District Collector Vishu Mahajan has announced a strategy for the operation of workplace ponds astatine rainfed cultivation regions successful the district, funded done Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
Thoothukudi territory medication has been implementing an inaugural to conception workplace ponds astatine cultivation lands successful regions specified arsenic Kovilpatti, Kayathar, Ottapidaram, Vilathikulam and Pudur, with the enactment of CSR funding. In these regions 1,45,000 hectares of onshore are being cultivated with maize, cotton, achromatic gram, bulb and different horticultural crops.
Despite the larger country nether cultivation, cultivation productivity successful these areas is debased owed to changes successful monsoon rainfall. To assistance these farmers and to summation the production, workplace ponds are being constructed to cod the rainwater during the monsoon season.
Based connected farmers’ requirements, tiny and ample ponds successful the size 15x15x2 metres, 18x18x2 metres and 20x20x2 metres volition beryllium constructed depending connected the characteristics of the soil. The rainwater that different flows distant during the rainy play is collected successful these ponds and volition beryllium utilized during indispensable h2o needs of crops specified arsenic germination, flowering and others thereby ensuring higher yields.
So acold the installation has been implemented connected cultivation lands of 215 farmers from the 5 regions.
Farmers who are funny successful mounting up this installation tin interaction 96299 14199, pursuing that tract volition beryllium inspected straight and indispensable steps volition beryllium taken to conception workplace ponds.
