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Paddy transplantation complete early this year

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Seasonal conditions most congenial, says official

Kakinada: The paddy transplantation, contrary to previous years, has been completed early this year in East Godavari district and more over the area covered by the paddy has surpassed the normal area, thus registering 106 percent coverage.

As against the normal paddy area of 2,19,869 hectares, the area covered by paddy transplantations was 2,34,266. The dry crops area has come down due to farmers preferring paddy cultivation. However, dry crops cultivation in the remaining 81,827 hectares was completed early. The early completion of the paddy transplantations and the dry crops sowing was attributed to the fairly good seasonal conditions this year.

As against the normal rainfall of 508 mm during the seasons beginning June, the district had received 564 mm rainfall, thus recording 10.9 percent excess rainfall. Deputy Director of Agriculture I. Rama Krishnamurty claimed that the seasonal conditions this year were considered to be most congenial and expected good yields. Even the rainfall figures of past 15 years during the three months season starting from June were analysed, he said, this year is considered the best. While in 2003 the number of rainy days in the district were 33, it was 27 in the next year and 28 during 2005 and 29 days last year. But during current season, he said, 46 rainy days were recorded.

Training

On the Adarsa ryots scheme, Ramakrishna Murthy said 1,439 farmers were selected during the first phase and training was imparted to them in batches –at divisional level during May and mandal level during August first week. Identity cards were also issued to them to work efficiently as catalysts for passing on information to the ryots under the lab to the land programme.

He said each Adarsa ryot would serve 250 families in the village and would pass on the required information to the ryots by writing on the black board put up in each gram panchayat offices. He claimed that Adarsa ryots would bridge the gap between the ryots and the department by constantly monitoring the crop conditions in villages and interacting with both of them on suggesting remedial measures for the important problems such as pests’ application of fertilisers’ .

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