Forty farmers of Govindanayakampalayam village were exposed to latest pest management practices for paddy crop by the Agriculture Department under the aegis of agricultural technology management agency (ATMA) recently.
The vice-president of Agricultural Graduate Consultancy and Service Society Limited, P. Muralidharan, demonstrated process of integrated pest management in paddy crop, and detailed about disease management. Technical expert from Myrada Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Gobi, John Prabakaran, elaborated on the utility of modern agricultural implements and machinery, especially paddy transplanter and harvester.
Farmers were taken on a field trip to seed farms at Unjampalayam to learn more about new varieties: CO (R) 50, and ADT (R) 50. Seed certification officer S. Govindasamy explained salient features of the new varieties.
Since the crops were in a flowering stage, farmers could be easily sensitised to the utility of machine trasnplanters for raising paddy by Agriculture Officer Shyam Sundar. At one such farm, a progressive farmer Duraisamy who had used a transplanter could ensure growth of 25 to 30 tillers in a bush. Manual planting would have resulted only in 10 tillers in a bush.
The training served the purpose of motivating farmers to go for machine transplanting in future, officials said.
Source : The Hindu
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