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Nagapattinam District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar has urged farmers to undertake ungraded investigating earlier commencing cultivation and use fertilizers based connected the recommendations provided successful ungraded wellness cards.
In a statement, the Collector said that though the territory had capable earthy ungraded and h2o resources for cultivating paddy, pulses, and oilseeds, excessive usage of chemic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides had adversely affected ungraded fertility and the prime of cultivation produce.
He said indiscriminate exertion of fertilizers could origin excessive vegetative growth, accrued pest onslaught and disease, and lodging of crops earlier harvest. Soil investigating would assistance reconstruct ungraded wellness and guarantee balanced nutrient management.
Mr. Praveen Kumar said nutrient levels varied from tract to tract and harvest requirements differed according to varieties cultivated. Fertilizer exertion based connected ungraded trial results would assistance trim input costs, conserve ungraded fertility, and amended yields.
The ungraded wellness paper provides details connected ungraded texture, pH level, large nutrients, and micronutrients, too crop-specific fertilizer recommendations. Adoption of nutrient absorption practices based connected the paper would assistance farmers summation productivity and income, helium said.
Farmers were advised to undertake ungraded investigating annually oregon astatine slightest erstwhile successful 3 years. They tin taxable ungraded and h2o samples astatine ungraded investigating laboratories and mobile ungraded investigating units successful the territory connected outgo of an investigation interest of ₹30 and get ungraded wellness cards with fertilizer recommendations.
