Farming
Take steps to save water in paddy season, farmers told
The Tribune · 21 May 2016
Since the notification for paddy transplantation season has been issued, with farmers being asked not to initiate paddy transplantation before June 15 as per the Sub Soil Water Preservation Act, 2009, the Agriculture Department has started educating farmers to adopt measures to preserve water.
Chief Agriculture Officer, Inderjit Singh, has urged farmers not to water the farms which have been vacated after wheat harvesting. He said this practice was quite prevalent among the farmers, which did not do any good to the farm and instead wasted thousands of litres of water.
He further asked farmers to water the standing crop as per requirement and only in the evening time, which would save plenty of water. He also wanted the farmers to increase area under the maize crop according to the crop diversification programme.
Chief Agriculture Officer, Inderjit Singh, has urged farmers not to water the farms which have been vacated after wheat harvesting. He said this practice was quite prevalent among the farmers, which did not do any good to the farm and instead wasted thousands of litres of water.
He further asked farmers to water the standing crop as per requirement and only in the evening time, which would save plenty of water. He also wanted the farmers to increase area under the maize crop according to the crop diversification programme.