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The State authorities has decided to represent district-level task forces comprising cultivation experts and Agriculture section officials to code the situation faced by arecanut farmers successful assorted districts.
The determination was taken astatine a high-level gathering chaired by Agriculture Minister T. Siddique successful Wayanad connected Monday (June 15). The authorities views with superior interest the crisp diminution successful arecanut productivity successful respective districts owed to yellowish leafage illness and fungal infections, the Minister said.
Mr. Siddique noted that arecanut farmers from Kasaragod to Palakkad, arsenic good arsenic successful immoderate confederate districts, were facing terrible difficulties. “The district-level task forces are being formed to place the circumstantial causes of declining yields and illness outbreaks and to urge solutions,” helium said.
In summation to Agriculture section officials, the task forces volition see scientists and cultivation experts from Kerala Agricultural University and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. They person been directed to behaviour elaborate studies wrong 3 weeks and suggest broad solutions to the problems faced by farmers.
“The task forces volition analyse a scope of issues, including clime change, changes successful ungraded composition, problems related to the usage of fertilisers and pesticides, the adoption of disease-resistant planting material, and imaginable preventive measures for arecanut palms already affected by diseases,” Mr. Siddique said.
The Minister said a study would beryllium prepared connected measures that could beryllium implemented successful coordination with the Local Self-Government section to enactment arecanut cultivation by integrating assorted Central and State authorities schemes and projects. Based connected this, further enactment volition beryllium taken to make a lasting solution to the problems faced by arecanut farmers, helium added.
