KRISHNAGIRI: The State Government has allocated Rs. 1.58 crore for improving the area of cultivation of nutritious pulses and cereals in the district for the financial year 2011-12, said a release issued by K. Rajan, Joint Director, Agriculture here recently.
The release said the subsidy is distributed to the farmers to encourage cultivation of nutritious crops such as ‘ragi' and ‘samai.'
The scheme was launched by the Collector on June 22.
Under this scheme, bio fertilizer, micro fertilizer, chemical fertilizer and other inputs required to safeguard the crops from insects would be issued on 100 per cent subsidy basis.
Subsidy
This scheme would be implemented for ragi crop on 5000 hectares, ‘samai' crop on 400 hectares in Shoolagiri, Thali, Hosur, Kelamangalam, Mathur and Uthangarai Panchayat Unions. Under this scheme, the subsidy per hectare for ragi Rs. 3000 and Rs. 2000 for ‘samai' have been fixed by the government.
Due to the implementation of this scheme, ragi and ‘samai' production would improve 25 to 35 bags per hectare and about 5,187 farmers would be benefited.
Production
Improving the production of ragi and ‘samai' would automatically improve the iron, vitamin and fibre nutrition to the people of the district.
Increase in production of ragi and ‘samai' would also improve the usage among the people in the form of value added products, the release further added.
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