Sustainable foreseeable future: Punjab, Haryana incentives to end standard paddy sowing
Making use of the DSR procedure, one can mechanically drill paddy seeds specifically into the field. The equipment does the seeding of rice and spray of herbicide concurrently.
In the classic process, farmers are initially expected to elevate young crops in nurseries and then the vegetation are transplanted in a drinking water-logged area.
Experiments say conventionally developed rice will take all around 5,000 litres of h2o to make a single kg of rice. The DSR procedure can help save up to 20 per cent water, besides saving labour charge and up to 25 for every cent electricity expense.
The AAP federal government in Punjab is giving monetary guidance of Rs 1,500 for every acre to the farmers sowing paddy by the DSR technique, even though the BJP govt in Haryana is providing a income incentive of Rs 4,000 per acre.
Experts from the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department have been motivating the farmers of 12 districts of Haryana to expand paddy by means of the DSR procedure in the latest cultivation season.
Very last 7 days, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asked the Deputy Commissioners to launch an consciousness and drive campaign to endorse the DSR know-how to preserve groundwater, apart from encouraging farmers to sow summer season ‘moong’ and ‘basmati’ to give an impetus to crop diversification.
This year Punjab has set a concentrate on to bring 30 lakh acres, out of a overall place of 75 lakh acres of paddy cultivation, below the DSR system. Close to 5 lakh hectares out of the overall place is envisioned to be brought under the highly remunerative basmati rice.
In Haryana, the incentive-dependent DSR plan is becoming applied in 12 districts — Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Panipat, Jind, Sonipat, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Rohtak and Hisar — with a goal of one lakh acres.
As for every formal info, DSR-cultivated paddy plots will distribute throughout 6,000 acres every in Yamunanagar, Panipat and Sonipat 7,000 acres in Ambala 8,000 acres each in Sirsa, Hisar, Rohtak 9,000 acres in Fatehabad 10,000 acres every single in Karnal and Kurukshetra and 11,000 acres just about every in Kaithal and Jind.
As per official figures, about 12.50 lakh hectares was beneath paddy cultivation in 2021.
According to experts, the basmati rice can be developed by way of DSR under non-puddle situations and it can be finished in virtually all sorts of soils suited for rice growing.
Punjab is furnishing a power subsidy of Rs 7,200 crore (about Rs 17,000 for every hectare) every single 12 months for over 14 lakh tubewells. Nonetheless, Haryana does not give electric power subsidy to its farmers.
The contribution of Punjab, with only 1.53 for each cent of the overall geographical space of India, is about 18 for each cent of the country’s , 11 for every cent paddy, 4.4 for each cent cotton and 10 for every cent milk.
For the earlier lots of a long time, Punjab has been contributing about 35-40 for every cent of wheat and 25-30 for each cent of rice to the central pool.
Haryana has its own product to make the farmers prosperous.
To be certain that the farmers become prosperous by crop diversification and eco-welcoming strategies, it is furnishing them incentives.
For this, the state govt has launched two schemes — ‘Mera Paani, Meri Virasat’ and ‘Kheti Khaali, Fir Bhi Khushali’.
Below the ‘Mera Paani, Meri Virasat’ plan, farmers switching more than to an alternate crop in spot of paddy are being specified Rs 7,000 for every acre incentive.
The ‘Kheti Khaali, Fir Bhi Khushali’ scheme fetches Rs 7,000 per acre incentive to farmers, if they do not mature any crop in their field in the course of the paddy period.
Advocating the require to adopt the DSR engineering, Haryana Main Minister Manohar Lal Khattar instructed IANS that it is a further exclusive initiative to give incentive and guidance to thousands of farmers who make their livelihood by paddy cultivation.
“This will not only present them a expense-powerful approach but also fetch them the wanted publicity and education about the new approaches to improve their procedures.”
Agricultural industry experts feel there are apprehensions among the more youthful and more mature generation about the good results of the DSR technological innovation in paddy cultivation.
For a long time, farmers have been making use of the conventional technique of sowing paddy saplings in puddled fields. They are averse to opting for the new strategy. In lots of circumstances, fathers pressed their sons to plough the fields following 1 or two weeks owing to misconceptions and sow the paddy using the traditional strategy.
Farmer Gurdev Singh of Moga district has been successful in applying the DSR approach in his 30 acres of land around the past two many years.
“In the 1st 12 months of the pandemic (2020), there was a large lack of labour owing to the nationwide lockdowns. Then we made a decision to go for the DSR strategy for paddy plantation,” he advised IANS.
In accordance to him, the mechanical plantation not only will save cash with the at any time escalating enter costs, wages and diesel prices but also will save irrigation drinking water and energy, aside from early crop maturity.
The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) in Ludhiana has created the late sowing of rice nursery, specifically the PR 126 paddy variety that could help save up to seven billion cubic metres of water, aside from preserving electrical power expenses of nearly Rs 730 crore.
PR 126 will take 123 days to mature if the crops are developed via the DSR method, even though Pusa 44 matures in at the very least 160 days just after seeding.
Some areas of Punjab, like the Mukerian and Ferozepur belts, do develop basmati. But most farmers finish up expanding typical paddy, named ‘jhona’ as the enter price is fewer.
(Vishal Gulati can be contacted at [email protected])
–IANS
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Making use of the DSR procedure, one can mechanically drill paddy seeds specifically into the field. The equipment does the seeding of rice and spray of herbicide concurrently.
In the classic process, farmers are initially expected to elevate young crops in nurseries and then the vegetation are transplanted in a drinking water-logged area.
Experiments say conventionally developed rice will take all around 5,000 litres of h2o to make a single kg of rice. The DSR procedure can help save up to 20 per cent water, besides saving labour charge and up to 25 for every cent electricity expense.
The AAP federal government in Punjab is giving monetary guidance of Rs 1,500 for every acre to the farmers sowing paddy by the DSR technique, even though the BJP govt in Haryana is providing a income incentive of Rs 4,000 per acre.
Experts from the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department have been motivating the farmers of 12 districts of Haryana to expand paddy by means of the DSR procedure in the latest cultivation season.
Very last 7 days, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asked the Deputy Commissioners to launch an consciousness and drive campaign to endorse the DSR know-how to preserve groundwater, apart from encouraging farmers to sow summer season ‘moong’ and ‘basmati’ to give an impetus to crop diversification.
This year Punjab has set a concentrate on to bring 30 lakh acres, out of a overall place of 75 lakh acres of paddy cultivation, below the DSR system. Close to 5 lakh hectares out of the overall place is envisioned to be brought under the highly remunerative basmati rice.
In Haryana, the incentive-dependent DSR plan is becoming applied in 12 districts — Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Panipat, Jind, Sonipat, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Rohtak and Hisar — with a goal of one lakh acres.
As for every formal info, DSR-cultivated paddy plots will distribute throughout 6,000 acres every in Yamunanagar, Panipat and Sonipat 7,000 acres in Ambala 8,000 acres each in Sirsa, Hisar, Rohtak 9,000 acres in Fatehabad 10,000 acres every single in Karnal and Kurukshetra and 11,000 acres just about every in Kaithal and Jind.
As per official figures, about 12.50 lakh hectares was beneath paddy cultivation in 2021.
According to experts, the basmati rice can be developed by way of DSR under non-puddle situations and it can be finished in virtually all sorts of soils suited for rice growing.
Punjab is furnishing a power subsidy of Rs 7,200 crore (about Rs 17,000 for every hectare) every single 12 months for over 14 lakh tubewells. Nonetheless, Haryana does not give electric power subsidy to its farmers.
The contribution of Punjab, with only 1.53 for each cent of the overall geographical space of India, is about 18 for each cent of the country’s , 11 for every cent paddy, 4.4 for each cent cotton and 10 for every cent milk.
For the earlier lots of a long time, Punjab has been contributing about 35-40 for every cent of wheat and 25-30 for each cent of rice to the central pool.
Haryana has its own product to make the farmers prosperous.
To be certain that the farmers become prosperous by crop diversification and eco-welcoming strategies, it is furnishing them incentives.
For this, the state govt has launched two schemes — ‘Mera Paani, Meri Virasat’ and ‘Kheti Khaali, Fir Bhi Khushali’.
Below the ‘Mera Paani, Meri Virasat’ plan, farmers switching more than to an alternate crop in spot of paddy are being specified Rs 7,000 for every acre incentive.
The ‘Kheti Khaali, Fir Bhi Khushali’ scheme fetches Rs 7,000 per acre incentive to farmers, if they do not mature any crop in their field in the course of the paddy period.
Advocating the require to adopt the DSR engineering, Haryana Main Minister Manohar Lal Khattar instructed IANS that it is a further exclusive initiative to give incentive and guidance to thousands of farmers who make their livelihood by paddy cultivation.
“This will not only present them a expense-powerful approach but also fetch them the wanted publicity and education about the new approaches to improve their procedures.”
Agricultural industry experts feel there are apprehensions among the more youthful and more mature generation about the good results of the DSR technological innovation in paddy cultivation.
For a long time, farmers have been making use of the conventional technique of sowing paddy saplings in puddled fields. They are averse to opting for the new strategy. In lots of circumstances, fathers pressed their sons to plough the fields following 1 or two weeks owing to misconceptions and sow the paddy using the traditional strategy.
Farmer Gurdev Singh of Moga district has been successful in applying the DSR approach in his 30 acres of land around the past two many years.
“In the 1st 12 months of the pandemic (2020), there was a large lack of labour owing to the nationwide lockdowns. Then we made a decision to go for the DSR strategy for paddy plantation,” he advised IANS.
In accordance to him, the mechanical plantation not only will save cash with the at any time escalating enter costs, wages and diesel prices but also will save irrigation drinking water and energy, aside from early crop maturity.
The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) in Ludhiana has created the late sowing of rice nursery, specifically the PR 126 paddy variety that could help save up to seven billion cubic metres of water, aside from preserving electrical power expenses of nearly Rs 730 crore.
PR 126 will take 123 days to mature if the crops are developed via the DSR method, even though Pusa 44 matures in at the very least 160 days just after seeding.
Some areas of Punjab, like the Mukerian and Ferozepur belts, do develop basmati. But most farmers finish up expanding typical paddy, named ‘jhona’ as the enter price is fewer.
(Vishal Gulati can be contacted at [email protected])
–IANS
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