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CADA administrative serviceman of Malaprabha and Ghataprabha Projects M. Satish Kumar has emphasised the request for the farmers successful the bid country to signifier Water Users’ Cooperative Societies and actively enactment successful the participatory irrigation system.
Inaugurating the three-day grooming programme connected “Integrated h2o resources conservation and management” for farmers of the Malaprabha and Ghataprabha bid areas astatine the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) successful Dharwad connected Saturday, helium said that the required grooming connected businesslike h2o usage and ungraded fertility absorption was being jointly provided by CADA and WALMI and called upon the farmers to marque afloat usage of the grooming programme.
He said WALMI offered broad grooming connected modern cultivation technologies, participatory irrigation management, enactment and functioning of Water Users’ Cooperative Societies, h2o complaint appraisal and collection, irrigation laws, and more, supported by demonstrations and tract visits. And during the grooming the trainees would besides beryllium visiting objection plots, micro-irrigation units, hydraulic, ungraded and h2o investigating laboratories, a livestock unit, a vermin compost portion and a rainwater harvesting portion connected the WALMI campus, helium said.
Presiding implicit the inaugural session, B.Y. Bandivaddar said that successful an agriculture-dependent state similar India h2o drawn from reservoirs was invaluable and bully yields could beryllium achieved done prime seeds, due ungraded absorption and judicious usage of water. He emphasised the request for farmers to cultivate crops that suited to their section ungraded and biology conditions alternatively of depending 1 oregon 2 commercialized crops.
Land Development Officer (Cooperation) S.S. Poojari said due h2o organisation required adjacent practice betwixt farmers and engineers nether the participatory irrigation strategy successful which Water Users’ Cooperative Societies played a cardinal role. He said that societies should independently grip h2o complaint collection, make consciousness connected h2o appraisal and guarantee that each the farmers benefited.
President of Water Users’ Cooperative Society Kumar Timmapur stressed the request for the farmers to equip themselves with cognition connected ungraded and h2o management, silt management, enactment and functioning of societies, CADA schemes and others truthful arsenic to marque farming much viable.
