Farmer Training cum Scientist Interaction in CAR Adopted village Mallapur on 17-06-2023
Training cum Interaction meeting was conducted by Village Adoption Programme team of scientists, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar in the Adopted village, Panchayat office Mallapur on 17-06-2023. Mallapur of Kottur mandal has been adopted by CAR. The program was conducted under the guidance of Associate Dean, CAR and facilitated by the Sarpanch of the village Sri. Chirra Sailu and his office bearers. Convenor of VAP Dr T Ramesh and Dr Shailaja, Asst Professor SSAC conducted the meeting. Around 25 farmers participated in the meeting. Discussion and field visit were carried out on areas of adoption of technologies of the university and included the following
- Identification of farmers who would take up root dip technique of paddy seedlings before transplanting with biofertilizer i.e., phosphorus solubilizing bacteria (psb) with a view to reduce the cost of inputs. The technique would increase the availability of fixed P in the soil and decrease the consumption of chemical fertilizers i.e., DAP. Twenty farmers were given the input of 500 g PSB. The culture was supplied by Dr Triveni, Prof of Microbiology
- Paddy minikit namely RNR 31479 two kg packets were given to three farmers to be sown in an area of 10 guntas for testing of yield and quality (pest and disease) performance. Minikit is under second year of testing. Minikit has a duration of 125 days and falls under the category of short slender type. The minikit is proposed to be compared with check variety RNR 15048 / Jaisriram / HMT Sona / Chintu / Pooja or any early duration superfine grain variety. Dr Krishna, Principal Scientist, ARI, Rice supplied the paddy seed
- Drum seeder technique to be demonstrated as a substitute to transplanting – farmer has been identified for taking up the demo
- Soil sample collection from representative uniform fields and depositing the same in the gram panchayat office for collection and further analysis by the university
- Visit was undertaken to asparagus field to identify the pest and nutrient deficiency. Recommendation was given to spray Tracer to control Heliothis and Nutrient mixture namely Superia containing macro and micro nutrients at 15 days interval. The chemical is to be supplied by M/s Coromandel International limited.
Proposed work areas included
- Identification of farmers for cotton HDPS demonstrations
- Monitoring of PSB application
- Minikits of paddy distribution and monitoring of the given seed
- Soil sample collection for analysis
