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Tamil Nadu
New rice cultivation system gaining popularity
Special Correspondent
Photo: C. Venkatachalapathy
Making an assessment: Officials inspecting the demonstration plot raising paddy under the System of Rice Intensification at Vikkiravandi near Villupuram on Wednesday. —
VILLUPURAM: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is gaining popularity among the farmers in the State and in the next of couple of years almost 50 per cent of the total area under paddy will adopt this method, according to S. Audiseshiah, Secretary, Public Works Department.
Mr. Audiseshiah, accompanied by Vibu Nayar, Project Director, I AM WARM (Integrated Agriculture Modernisation and Water Bodies Restoration and Management) project, C. Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, and District Collector Brajendra Navnit inspected the demonstration plot raising paddy under SRI technology at Vikkiravandi near here on Wednesday.
Mr. Audiseshiah told reporters that the SRI technology was being propagated by the State government and the TNAU. So far 3,000 hectare (ha) had come under the project and since it was being promoted under the mission mode it would soon bring about 11 lakh ha (of the total area of 20.5 lakh ha under paddy) under SRI in the next two-three years.
Yet, no target was fixed nor any compulsion involved for the farmers to go for the new crop method.
Under the I AM WARM project, funded by World Bank and implemented through the TNAU, a subsidy of Rs. 10,000 a ha was being given to the farmers, and for other areas the Agriculture Department was giving away a subsidy of Rs 2,000 per ha.
Asked how long the subsidy scheme would continue, Mr. Audiseshiah said it would be available only to the demonstration plots.
However, the government had proposed to give 10,000 cono-weeders free of cost to the farmers during the next paddy season.
Many benefits would accrue to the farmers by adopting the SRI technology: while the production cost under the traditional practice would be Rs 21,429 per ha, under the new system it would be Rs 19,060 per ha.
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