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Farmers get high yield under SRI

Staff Reporrter

Intensive campaign being launched to motivate farmers

PERAMBALUR: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has enabled farmers to register a higher productivity in Perambalur and Ariyalur districts last season. For the first time, a number of farmers have recorded a yield, considered the first ever bumper harvest in their paddy fields.

The Joint Director of Agriculture (in-charge),S. Sivakumar, said that Gnanamani, a farmer of Tirumanur, who had raised CO-43 ‘samba’ variety, registered 18,500 kg a hectare. Nagarajan of Kandiranatham near Tirumanur, registered 12,500 kg of the same variety.

Farmers who had cultivated KRH2 variety under the SRI technique had also registered a sharp rise in their yields. While Vasuki Paramasivam of Sendurai had registered 16,850 kg; Dravidasundaramurthy registered a yield of 15,712 kg followed by Sivasankaran of Kalarampatti village in Perambalur block with 10,325 kg.

“The SRI technique had benefited all farmers irrespective of the varieties cultivated. Venkatachalam of Ladapuram who cultivated BPT-5204 had harvested 10,772 kg,” the official said.

The Joint Director of Agriculture said that Natarajan of Kodalikaruppur in T. Pazhur block who had cultivated CR-1000 variety, had registered 11,150 kg.

The farmers were honoured at a function held here recently. Based on the success of the SRI, the Agriculture Department had chalked out an action plan to bring 18,000 hectares under the technique during the current year. Intensive campaigns were being launched to motivate the farmers to take to SRI technique. The advantages of less cultivation cost, economic use of water and effective utilisation of bio-fertilizers were being explained to the farmers during the course of the campaign, he added.

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