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P. Sudhakar
BOON: Drip irrigation at a farm in Tirunelveli district.
TIRUNELVELI: At a time when agriculturists are finding it extremely difficult to manage irrigation exercises throughout the year with the little quantity of water available, the Government is expected to allocate a whopping sum of Rs. 3.80 crore as subsidy during current fiscal for the farmers of Tirunelveli district for installing drip irrigation facilities in their farms. While farmers having their ranches close to the Tamiraparani watercourse can provide succour to the plants with ease, agriculturists of Radhapuram, Nanguneri, Sankarankovil and other rain shadow regions have to rely upon only deep borewells to save their crops. And providing water to the standing crops in these regions during summer is the most worrying and painful exercise for the farmers since groundwater table goes down alarmingly between April and August. After the Department of Horticulture carried out intensive campaigns in the rain shadow regions on the need for following micro irrigation techniques, a good number of farmers has started following drip irrigation and even fertigation methods to get attractive yield. In fact, Radhapuram and Nanguneri areas have become the ‘amla belt’ of Tirunelveli district by following drip irrigation farming, having a range of advantages right from cost-cutting to excellent yield. Salty water
“Even salty water can be used for irrigation under drip irrigation method, as the dissolved salts are pushed beyond the spread of the entire root system, which will not be affected by the salinity. When water is irrigated under sub-surface drip irrigation method, the dissolved salts settle down below the root system and hence the plant will not be affected. Even coconut trees can be provided with drip irrigation,” says the Collector, G. Prakash. To take drip irrigation and fertigation practices to other areas, the Government, through the Department of Agricultural Engineering, gives an attractive subsidy of 50 per cent to farmers for providing drip irrigation to their orchards having mango, amla, plantain, guava, lemon, orange, sapota, pomegranate, cashew, grapes etc. Since track record of the district categorically proves that horticulture activities across Tirunelveli have moved in top gear in the recent years, the Government has decided to take drip irrigation to 2,100 hectares, on which new orchards would be created. Interested farmers can contact the Office of Assistant Executive Engineer of Agricultural Engineering at NGO ‘A’ Colony, or the agricultural engineering offices at Railway Line Street, Cheranmahadevi and Tenkasi.
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