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Agriculture | Gulbarga takes to organic farming -TV Sivanandan

Gulbarga takes to organic farming -TV Sivanandan

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published Published on Oct 20, 2014   modified Modified on Oct 20, 2014
-The Hindu

Gulbarga (Karnataka): Organic farming is catching up with farmers both in the irrigated and rain-fed areas in Gulbarga district. The improved agricultural practice of mixed crop cultivation, avoiding the use of the chemical fertilisers and pesticides, is a hit among the farmers in the district.

Joint Director of the Agriculture Department Mohammad Jilani Mokashi told a group of presspersons visiting some of the agriculture plots, where individual farmers have adopted improved agriculture practices, that the awareness levels among the farmers on the need to switch over to organic farming had increased - both in the irrigated and rain-fed areas.

A progressive farmer, Shivasharanappa Bulla, who on his own adopted the organic farming methods to cultivate sugarcane and vegetables in his 40 acre land in Pattan village in Gulbarga taluk, said that the yield has considerably increased after switching over to the organic farming and the cost of cultivation had also come down drastically. "The price for the crops grown without the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides was also high in the market".

Mr. Mokashi said in all the Agriculture Department has taken up demonstration plots for creating awareness about improved agriculture practices, using mixed cropping methods and organic cultivation, in a total of 6,850 hectares. The crops in all the demonstration plots were healthy and the expected increase in the yield was more than 30 per cent, when compared to the previous year's yield.

During the rabi season, Mr. Mokashi said demonstration plots of Jowar and Bengal gram would be taken up in 12,500 hectares.

The Hindu, 17 October, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnat
aka/gulbarga-takes-to-organic-farming/article6509083.ece


The Hindu, 17 October, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/gulbarga-takes-to-organic-farming/article6509083.ece


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