7 months ago
1
A full of 1,234 farmers successful the Veerapandi artifact successful the Salem territory benefitted from the Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) activities successful the past 7 months.
The ATMA strategy is simply a centrally sponsored strategy (the Union authorities shares 60% and the State authorities 40%). The ATMA activities are fulfilling the needs of training, demonstrations, husbandman involvement radical formation, capableness building, revolving funds, and inter-State and inter-district vulnerability visits to farmers successful the artifact concerned.
In the Veerapandi artifact successful Salem district, determination are 53 villages and the nett cultivation country successful the artifact is 5,525.25 hectares. There are full of 7,578 farmers successful the Veerapandi artifact including 6,708 farmers who owns little than 2.50 acres of workplace lands each and 870 farmers who owns much than 5 acres of onshore each. In the district, the Veerapandi artifact lone has 48 farmers belonging to the Scheduled Castes, which is debased compared with the remaining 19 blocks. In the block, millets, including maize, are cultivated successful 3,385.30 hectares, pulses successful 835.3 hectares, paddy successful 244.7 hectares, lipid seeds successful 841 hectares and sugarcane successful 100.5 hectares.
B. Karthikayani, Assistant Director of Agriculture, said that ATMA activities specified arsenic grooming connected millet harvest accumulation for husbandman involvement groups, simplification of chemic fertilizers done integrated nutrient management, vermicompost production, integrated input production, village-level cultivation improvement radical training, and agriculture machinery usages were conducted for farmers.
Likewise, done Kisan Gosthies activity, farmers volition beryllium educated successful caller techniques successful agriculture, integrated farming grooming nether the innovative activities astatine the territory level, demonstrations, workplace schoolhouse activity, and associated visits by cultivation scientists, hold workers, and farmers to resoluteness issues successful farming. Through these activities, successful the past 7 months from May to November, 1,234 farmers from the artifact benefitted, Ms. Karthikayani added.
