7 months ago
3
Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited (TNPL) is exploring scope for initiating farmers successful Coimbatore territory into raising pulpwood trees.
TNPL officials drove location the imaginable for sustained income procreation by raising pulpwood trees astatine an predisposition programme for imaginable cultivators organised by a Farmer Producer Company astatine Periyanaickenpalayam recently.
According to G. Ranganathan, Director of the Business Division of Palamalai Farmers Producer Company Limited, the agro-climatic information successful Coimbatore was suitable for raising casuarina and ‘malai vembu’ (Melia Dubia) to present sustained income for cultivators.
The TNPL has, truthful far, been sourcing pulpwood nether declaration statement with farmers successful Ariyalur, Villupuram, Pudukottai, Karur and Tiruchi districts. In the past 2 decades, farmers successful Tiruppur territory were besides roped successful by the TNPL for declaration cultivation of pulpwood trees.
Through forming a network, FPOs successful Coimbatore territory spot anticipation for liaising betwixt funny farmers and TNPL, Mr. Ranganathan said.
In the backdrop of inadequacy of manpower for agriculture, farmers volition beryllium funny successful utilising fallow onshore for raising the pulpwood histrion plantations done drip-irrigation paraphernalia, helium said.
According to a TNPL official, determination was immense imaginable for raising pulpwood successful Coimbatore district. The TNPL educates and trains farmers successful modern exertion successful pulp wood farming, extending a buy-back assurance with minimum enactment price.
The institution provides high-yielding site-specific clones to summation productivity successful plantations. It has probe linkages with Forest College & Research Institute (FCRI), Mettupalayam, nether Tamil Nadu Agriculture University and Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Coimbatore, nether ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education).
As per authoritative data, TNPL has implicit the past 21 years, reached retired to 58,077 farmers for pulpwood cultivation successful 2,82,321 lakh acres successful Tamil Nadu.
