Since there are not many farmers who are unaware of effective practices, Agricultural Extension Officer Nagarjuna invites groups of women farmers to participate in Rythu Vedika
Release date – Friday, July 23 at 07:20 PM
Sidi Pete: To make the most of the Rythu Vedika concept, the Agricultural Extension Officer (AEO) of Narayanraopet T Nagarjuna has been educating women farmers who will play key roles in rice transplants and other management activities.
Since there are not many farmers who do not know effective practices, Nagarjuna invites women farmers to form teams to participate in Rythu Vedika. The Narayanraopet agricultural cluster has five villages and the main crop is rice. In an interview with Telangana Today, Nagarajuna said farmers do not leave alleys between rice crops, which ultimately reduces yields.
Farmers must leave a foot-wide passage between every two meters of crops. He said rice crops need air and sunlight for optimal yields, but farmers see this as a waste of space. Farmers in his cluster grow mainly short- and medium-term crops, which are harvested in 125 to 135 days. However, farmers are planting 30 to 33 saplings per square meter, which is ideal for long-term crops such as Sannalu.
During a field interaction on Friday, AEO reminded female transplant farmers to plant 40 to 44 saplings per square meter. When it comes to the control of stem borers, he suggested that farmers spray carbofuran granules when raising seedlings one week before transplanting. Nagarjuna taught them that they can limit the input of pellets, because the rice will disperse after transplanting.
At the nursery stage, farmers need only 900 grams of granules to plant an acre of saplings. After transplanting an acre of crops, they need 10 kg of granules. Nagarjuna has held 5 conferences so far, educating 500 women farmers.
Bandi Bharathamma, a rice farmer in Ibrahimpur village, said the advice was very helpful to them because no one had taught them these practices before.
