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Scientific sugarcane cropping behind farmers’ all round growth: Bhoosreddy
Date:
31 Jul 2020
Source:
The Times of India
Reporter:
TNN
News ID:
45375
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Pilibhit: The principal secretary of sugarcane and sugar industry in UP, Sanjay R Bhoosreddy, has claimed that the promotion of advanced scientific methods of sugarcane cultivation in the state has resulted in better soil health, increased productivity, minimal affliction of diseases and insects on crops, in addition to considerable decrease in agricultural investments. This positivity has ensured outstanding growth in the farming sector and enhancement in additional incomes of farmers, during a span of the past three years. Some farmers corroborated Bhoosreddy’s claims to TOI. “One of the most advantageous techniques is the trench method of sugarcane sowing, generally applied in autumn, which allows inter-cropping. During the past year, sugarcane growers had sown lentils, peas, potatoes, garlic, etc., along with cane in over two lakh hectares in the state. These crops earned the farmers additional income to the tune of Rs1,13,640 per hectare,” Bhoosreddy said. He said by adopting the department’s ‘ratoon management programme’, farmers could protect moisture in soil of sugarcane fields, resulting in savings on irrigation, as well as warding off attack of black bugs. “Through the horticulture department, the department is providing 80-90% subsidy on drip-water irrigation systems, which ensure judicious use of water and equal application of liquid fertilisers on crops. This system is already in use over an area of 17,000 hectare at present,” he said. By using soil health cards, sugarcane growers succeeded in reducing use of fertilisers by 25%. The department has also covered 10 million hectare under sugarcane crop with the trash mulching programme. By using dry leaves as manure in this method, the fertility of land was increased, weeds and pests were reduced and irrigation resources saved. This ensured additional savings to farmers to the tune of Rs 4,500 per hectare, Bhoosreddy said.
Under the high yielded seed production programme, the department distributed 242 lakh quintals of cane seed to farmers, which resulted in an average yield of 811 quintals per hectare, in comparison to the earlier average of around 600 quintals. This brought about a rise in farmers’ incomes by Rs 1,920 per hectare, he said.
Drumming up the scientific methods introduced by the cane department, a farmer at village Bhairo Kalan in Pilibhit, Palvinder Singh, said he had sown potatoes with trench sugarcane during last year’s autumn sowing season, followed it up with onion after harvesting the potato crop in early February, and earned over Rs 1.50 lakh per hectare surplus.
Another farmer, Hari Om Gangwar of village Devipur, who had sown linseed with sugarcane, said he successfully earned a surplus of Rs 1.10 lakh per hectare through inter-cropping.
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