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Tamil Nadu to promote dryland farming under cluster mode

-The Times of India

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has launched a major initiative to promote dry land farming in cluster mode, focusing on improving production and productivity of millets, pulses and oilseeds in rain-fed agricultural fields, which remain by and large unused.

The scheme, rolled out through a government order on January 27 is worth Rs 803 crore and aims at water conservation, promoting mixed farming, mini-dairy and poultry units to supplement farm income in 1,000 clusters in the state over the next four years ending 2019-20. Each cluster will cover 2,500 acres.

With a view to facilitating credit to the farming community, each cluster will have a primary agricultural cooperative credit society as its nodal centre. The clusters will cut across contiguous village panchayats if the required land cannot be identified within one panchayat. Each cluster will have farmers' clubs with dryland farmers as their members and lead farmers as office bearers. The clubs, apart from identifying the plots where agro-based interventions have to be carried out, will also suggest setting up of soil and water conservation structures and agronomic practices.

The scheme envisages capacity-building initiatives, hand-holding farmers to impart technical knowledge, organising motivational programmes and encouraging farmers to adopt good agricultural practices to increase farm income. Most importantly, farmer trainers will be identified to train each and every farmer involved in the programme. Farm visits will be organised for farmers within the district, within the state and to other states to provide exposure to best practices adopted by successful farmers. There would also be demonstration farms for pulses, millets and oil seeds in various parts of the state.

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