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The territory has stocked implicit 2,500 tonnes of urea and 800 tonnes of Di-Ammonium-Phosphate to conscionable the chemic nutrient request from the farmers for the upcoming ‘pisanam’ paddy season, the 2nd harvest season, betwixt October and January.
As the farmers of the territory would rise paddy connected implicit 20,000 hectares during the ‘pisanam’ paddy season, the agriculturists having their ranches successful the areas being fed by the irrigation channels getting h2o from the 5 dams – Gadananadhi, Ramanadhi, Karuppanadhi, Gundar and Adavinainarkovil Dams - and the systemised irrigation tanks of Chittar would spell successful for this nutrient atom cultivation betwixt October and January portion others successful the rain-fed areas would take-up maize, achromatic gram, greenish gram, cotton, groundnut and sugarcane during this season.
Hence, the Department of Agriculture has stocked chemic nutrients including Urea (880 tonnes), DAP (445 tonnes), potash (320 tonnes), analyzable (600 tonnes) and ace phosphate (26 tonnes) successful the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies.
In summation to this, the backstage stockists besides person 1,744 tonnes of urea, 442 tonnes of DAP, 190 tonnes of potash, 2,006 tonnes of analyzable and 147 tonnes of ace phosphate arsenic connected Friday (October 17).
“Even though we’ve sufficiently stocked chemic nutrients, we counsel the farmers to minimise the usage of these fertilizers and maximise the exertion of bio-fertilizers, manures and different earthy ingredients to amended ungraded wellness and rise eco-friendly workplace nutrient aft investigating the ungraded utilizing wellness cards fixed to them. Based connected the ungraded trial results and the medicine by the agriculture officers, the farmers whitethorn use the chemic and the bio-fertilizers and the manures arsenic prescribed by the officials to get maximum yield,” says Collector A. K. Kamal Kishore.
The Collector besides made it wide that nary husbandman should beryllium compelled by the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies and the backstage fertilizer stockists to bargain immoderate unwanted products and should not merchantability the fertilizers, pesticides etc. astatine inflated price. Farmers coming crossed immoderate specified instances whitethorn interaction the Joint Director of Agriculture astatine 04633 – 295430 during the moving hours.
They tin besides interaction oregon nonstop messages to Assistant Director of Agriculture - Quality Control (97917 92915), Assistant Director of Agriculture, Alangulam and Kadayam (94866 29920), Kadayanallur (97901 39254), Keezhapaavoor (98942 – 36933), Kuruvikulam (94425 33822), Melaneelithanallur (89039 25406), Sankarankovil (96295 82564), Tenkasi and Shencottai (95787 10856), Vasudevanallur (86670 53064) and the Agriculture Officers of Alangulam (63810 70996), Kadayam (75981 96343), Kadayanallur (95857 83993), Keezhapaavoor (63811 78973), Kuruvikulam (97879 20912), Sankarankovil (99422 86502), Tenkasi and Shencottai (94428 92564) and Vasudevanallur (95006 04416) for registering their complaints.
“We’ll initiate owed enactment against the erring PACBs oregon the backstage stockists,” assured Mr. Kamal Kishore.
