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The Water Resource Department has reached retired to farmers successful Palladam loop with a grooming programme nether the Modernisation of Command Area Development and Water Management (M-CADWM), a sub-scheme of PMKSY (Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana) for the play 2025-2026.
About 350 farmers from six colony h2o users’ relation were trained precocious by elder officials of WRD, nether the aviator task of the M-CADWM Scheme.
The farmers practising agriculture successful the Palladam Extension Canal with an ayacut of 4,989 hectares volition beryllium the beneficiaries of the scheme, requiring publication of the Central and State Governments successful 60:40 proportion, a WRO authoritative said.
The strategy envisages making robust backend infrastructure for micro-irrigation by farmers from established root to the workplace gross up to 1 Ha with underground pressurised piped irrigation.
The project, which entails the usage of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), and Internet of Things (IoT) exertion for h2o accounting and h2o management, volition pave the mode for expanding h2o usage ratio astatine the workplace level and raising cultivation production, thereby expanding income, officials explained to the farmers.
According to the officials, the intent of the grooming was to marque the task sustainable done Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) to Water User Societies (WUS) for absorption of irrigation assets.
The training, the authoritative added, was aimed astatine helping the WUS nexus with existing economical entities similar Farmer Producer Organisation oregon Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies.
