Micro-level planning to help boost agriculture in Tiruvallur district
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Assistant Agriculture Officers will put together plans for each village panchayat and kind a message-sharing group with farmers in order to information them about new applied sciences, officers mentioned
To facilitate micro-level planning and know-how switch to farmers, and thereby enhance their yield and revenue, the State Agriculture Department has began a Farmer-Official contact system.
As a part of this scheme, the Agriculture Department has chosen 10 farmers in every village panchayat who will function function fashions for the others by implementing the methods and recommendation given by the agriculture officers.
There are 526 village panchayats in Tiruvallur. While paddy is cultivated on 1 lakh hectares of land in the district, pulses are grown on 12,000 hectare, oil seeds on 12,000 hectares and sugarcane on 6,000 hectares of land.
There are 60 Assistant Agriculture Officers (AAO) in the district and they’re supposed to go to every village panchayat each fortnight and spend time with the farmers from 9 a.m to 5 p.m and information them on new strategies, seed-to-harvest know-how, strategies to forestall pest infestations and different schemes associated to agriculture.
“They have to prepare a plan for the village panchayat every fortnight and prepare a booklet. They will identify 10 farmers and form a message-sharing group where the members can share their grievances. A committee comprising scientists from Krishi Vigyan Kendra, and block-level agriculture and horticulture department officials will meet every fortnight, review the progress and plan for the next 15 days,” mentioned R. Sambath Kumar, Joint Director, Agriculture Department, Tiruvallur.
Mr. Kumar mentioned that earlier, planning pertaining to cultivation was accomplished on the district stage. “But each block may have different potential. The agriculture officer has to study this and help the farmer try new crops and technology too,” he added.
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