The continued absence of a working scientific system of agriculture management in Uttarakhand for more than eight years after State formation has resulted in creating a situation in which the traditional step-farming method is providing a non-profitable enterprise for the native farmers.
A Mechanical Engineering degree from an Indian Institute of Technology is a passport to a wide horizon of opportunities for any student. But for R. Madhavan, who passed out of IIT-Madras in 1986 and took up farming as an industrial enterprise, it was a means to redefine the role of engineers.
BHAWANIPATNA: Dambarudhar Gartia of Boringpadar village in Narla block harvested 90 quintals of paddy on three acres of land this kharif against 40 quintals during the previous season. This is despite fickle monsoon. He earned Rs 90,000 against an investment of around Rs 5,000.
Gartia is not the only farmer reaping profits from the SRI (system of rice intensification) method of cultivation.
Telling the farming community to make use of weather forecast and precision farming, Prof Anwar Alam, Vice-Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology- Kashmir (SKUAST-K), today said the same could be used to reduce loss in agriculture.
KRISHNAGIRI: Officials of the agriculture department have been instructed to produce short film/documentary on cultivation of paddy under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method and its success stories in the State with inputs from the beneficiaries.
The short film/documentary would be screened to the public and in schools.
With traditional preoccupation of Indian women with agriculture coming under gradual stress due to advent of new technologies and change in farming pattern, the Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA) is working hard to redefine the role of women in farm sector.
