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Adilabad Krushi Vikas Kendra upgraded

By Our Correspondent

ADILABAD, JUNE 8. The Krushi Vikas Kendra at Adilabad has been upgraded to a full-fledged and permanent unit following its success in inducing new techniques and applications in agriculture in the district.

The Kendra, set up in 2001, until now had the status of a remandated KVK, experimenting in low-cost agriculture and farm management methods.

The Adilabad KVK, which comes under the Zonal Agriculture Research Station, will now be sanctioned a training organiser, six scientists and nine support staff, in addition to the training organiser and three scientists already working there. The financial implications of the new face of the KVK are expected to be worked out in due course, as orders for regularizing the institution were received only in April.

The KVK's objectives include on-field training for farmers and experimentation with new techniques of crop production and management. The institution has also trained school dropouts.

The training organizer and agriculture scientist of the KVK, Nageswara Rao, said, "Among the most successfully implemented concepts by our Kendra was the `own your seed.' Soybean farmers were told to treat and store seed from their crop for the next season. According to our assessment, about 40 per cent of soybean cultivators saved the seed, resulting in savings worth Rs. 480 per acre on soybean seed for individual farmers in the district."

In the Kharif season of 2001, the KVK adopted the villages of Busimetta (Jainoor mandal), Chenchughat and Jamdapur (Adilabad), Vazirpur (Gudihatnoor) and Wadgaon (Indervelli) - villages populated predominantly by tribals. Here the Kendra successfully introduced high yielding varieties of cotton, soybean, sorghum, redgram, bengalgram, paddy and coriander. Its efforts included inculcating the practice of pest management through the judicious use of pesticides.

The yields of many crops improved by about 60 per cent over the previous year, Mr. Rao said.

He said major research conducted by the KVK at Adilabad pertained to the development of an inter-cropping design. "Many farmers are expected to follow our advice this Kharif season," he added.

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