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A elaborate technological survey is required to measure the imaginable of round-the-year integrated paddy-fish farming successful Kerala’s pokkali fields, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ram Nath Thakur has said.
Stressing the request to heighten farmers’ income portion ensuring ecological and socio-economic sustainability, the Minister said the afloat imaginable of pokkali fields indispensable beryllium tapped successful a sustainable manner. He was responding to demands from farmers seeking support to let food farming successful the country passim the twelvemonth alternatively of the existing seasonal regulations during his sojourn to the pokkali fields connected Monday (January 5). The Minister said a broad valuation of the prevailing laws, biology implications, and semipermanent socio-economic impacts indispensable precede immoderate specified move.
At present, atom cultivation is permitted successful pokkali fields from June to October, during the low-salinity period, portion food farming is allowed from November to April, erstwhile salinity levels are high.
Grinson George, Director of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, and Shinoh Subramanian, caput of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, were present.
