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| Lathyrus cultivation |
The agriculture sector puts enormous pressure on the country's limited
water resources, especially groundwater aquifers. Although there are many
technological advances, but these are often beyond capacity for financially
starved small and marginal farmers who find these unaffordable and unworkable. However
there are others solutions, which can be adopted without adding to the capital
burden of small farmers. Therefore,
one of the best possible approaches of conservation agriculture
enhancing crop diversification is by using the local available resources like
residual soil moisture and existing crop residues of kharif rice cultivation. In
this regard farmers from Jorakeundi Check Dam Scheme in Jhargram District have
efficiently demonstrated the benefits of tapping residual moisture in
leveraging farm income. Earlier most of the land used to remain fallow post
kharif but the Check Dam which was handed over just a year before has already been
able to bring a paradigm shift in attitude towards agriculture among the
farmers in the command areas. Well-tailored agriculture technology
dissemination initiatives from the project personnel has taken a pioneer role
in encouraging the farmers to bring 13 Ha of areas under lathyrus cultivation
and 3 ha under mustard cultivation using the residual moisture. Seeds were sown
in first week of November, so the harvest data is yet to arrive; however the
expected economy of return is as below:
Lathyrus( 13 Ha)
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Mustard (3 Ha)
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Cost of Cultivation
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52,200
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55,200
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Value of the produce
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3,90,000(@Rs20/kg)
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1,89,000(@Rs 42/kg)
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Net Profit
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3,37,800
|
1,33,800
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