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Malaprabha and Ghataprabha Projects Command Area Development Authority (CADA) administrative serviceman M. Satish Kumar has urged farmers successful Karnataka to guarantee wiser usage of h2o resources.
Speaking astatine a three-day grooming programme connected integrated h2o resources conservation and absorption for farmers of the Malaprabha and Ghataprabha bid areas organised astatine the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) successful Dharwad, helium asked them to signifier h2o users’ co-operative societies and actively enactment successful the participatory irrigation systems.
He urged farmers to marque the champion usage of specified programmes and larn skills of utilizing modern cultivation technologies, participatory irrigation management, enactment and functioning of h2o users’ co-operative societies, h2o complaint appraisal and collection, and irrigation laws.
He said the trainees volition sojourn objection plots, micro-irrigation units, hydraulic, ungraded and h2o investigating laboratories, a livestock unit, a vermi compost unit, and a rainwater harvesting portion connected the WALMI campus.
“In an agriculture-dependent state similar ours, irrigation h2o drawn from reservoirs is invaluable. Good output tin beryllium achieved done prime seeds, due ungraded management, and judicious usage of water,” Professor B. Y. Bandivaddar said. He said that farmers should cultivate crops suited to section ungraded and biology conditions alternatively than relying solely connected paddy and sugarcane.
“By learning astir authorities facilities disposable done CADA, ensuring due h2o complaint appraisal and collection, and making usage of Union Government schemes, h2o users’ co-operative societies tin go financially stronger,” helium said.
Land Development Officer (Co-operation) S. S. Poojari said due h2o organisation requires adjacent practice betwixt farmers and engineers nether the participatory irrigation system. “Societies should independently grip h2o complaint collection, make consciousness connected h2o assessment, and guarantee that each farmers payment from CADA schemes,” helium said.
Water Users’ Co-operative Society president Kumar Timmapur said farmers should equip themselves with cognition connected silt management, enactment and functioning of societies, CADA schemes, and guarantee the businesslike usage of ungraded and water.
