viable Alternative: Coconut crop in Kangeyam area gets irrigation through drip system.
ERODE: "Growing a Coconut tree is better than bringing up a child". This is a common and proven proverb in rural areas as a coconut tree gives back benefits thousand times more than what is given to it. The coconut tree is also called a ’Karpagavirusha’, because the entire part of the tree is useful. . "If a quality seed is planted, certainly the returns from the tree would be very high and the grower will certainly benefit by it," says an Agricultural Department official. “The coconut tree requires irrigation on alternate days in the first year, twice a week from second year till the time of maturity irrigation and then once in ten days," the assistant director of agriculture, Kangeyam A. Prabhakaran said on Saturday. ‘Because of this process the tree consumes plenty of water," he said. ‘However, with an intention to conserve water and also to raise coconut crop in areas where the water is limited, drip irrigation system should be popularised,” he added. ‘Drip system of irrigation is the most suitable model in such conditions, ". During this financial year the Agricultural department has introduced the micro irrigation system with the aim of irrigating more number of coconut crops in all the areas and conserving thirty to forty percent of water. He said in Erode district, the coconut crop has been raised in over 18,000 hectares of land. Prabhakaran said that during the current year coconut crop in one hundred hectares of land would be brought under Micro Irrigation system in Kangeyam area. He said the Government is granting huge subsidy for drip irrigation system and the farmers may approach the Agricultural officials and get information about the benefits for switching over to drip system of irrigation.
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