PANAJI: Cashew saplings planted via tribals of Ziltawadi in Canacona have started flowering inside the first 12 months of planting.
This is the first time the Ziltawadi tribals have ventured into cultivation of the plantation crop.
“Cashew saplings takes no less than six to seven years to yield fruit, however a graft can achieve this inside 3 years. In the case of the crop planted via Ziltawadi tribals, flowering has begun inside six months. This goes to turn the quality of the sapling in addition to the care taken via the farmers,” director, ICAR-CCARI, E B Chakurkar instructed TOI.
The other people of this hinterland space of the state have been educated via ICAR’s fruit and plant scientists prior to their venturing into cashew farming.
“We went to Ziltawadi last 12 months, wherein 35 tribals planted 1,000 saplings of ICAR’s cashew types throughout 12 acres of land. We gave the farmers coaching and supplied them with cashew saplings. About 10% of the crops have already started to flower,” Chakurkar stated.
Irrigation amenities, like motor pumps and pipelines, had been upgraded with the institute’s help to facilitate farming within the space.
“Director general, ICAR, Trilochan Mohapatra, lately paid a seek advice from to the farm and provided the tribals with irrigation amenities. He also inspired them to engage in intercropping via helping them plant vegetable seeds and papaya saplings as intercrops,” he stated.
In 2015, a complete of 42 farmers below Taleshir farmers self-help staff had started neighborhood cultivation with the assistance of ICAR scientists in every other a part of Canacona.
The farmers planted different and higher forms of 150 cashew and mango saplings each and every, but even so other crops, also supplied via the ICAR-CCARI.
The institute had adopted the world below the tribal sub-plan to enforce its integrated farming device model aimed toward elevating farm yield and income.
This is the first time the Ziltawadi tribals have ventured into cultivation of the crop. The other people of this hinterland space have been educated via ICAR’s fruit and plant scientists
This is the first time the Ziltawadi tribals have ventured into cultivation of the plantation crop.
“Cashew saplings takes no less than six to seven years to yield fruit, however a graft can achieve this inside 3 years. In the case of the crop planted via Ziltawadi tribals, flowering has begun inside six months. This goes to turn the quality of the sapling in addition to the care taken via the farmers,” director, ICAR-CCARI, E B Chakurkar instructed TOI.
The other people of this hinterland space of the state have been educated via ICAR’s fruit and plant scientists prior to their venturing into cashew farming.
“We went to Ziltawadi last 12 months, wherein 35 tribals planted 1,000 saplings of ICAR’s cashew types throughout 12 acres of land. We gave the farmers coaching and supplied them with cashew saplings. About 10% of the crops have already started to flower,” Chakurkar stated.
Irrigation amenities, like motor pumps and pipelines, had been upgraded with the institute’s help to facilitate farming within the space.
“Director general, ICAR, Trilochan Mohapatra, lately paid a seek advice from to the farm and provided the tribals with irrigation amenities. He also inspired them to engage in intercropping via helping them plant vegetable seeds and papaya saplings as intercrops,” he stated.
In 2015, a complete of 42 farmers below Taleshir farmers self-help staff had started neighborhood cultivation with the assistance of ICAR scientists in every other a part of Canacona.
The farmers planted different and higher forms of 150 cashew and mango saplings each and every, but even so other crops, also supplied via the ICAR-CCARI.
The institute had adopted the world below the tribal sub-plan to enforce its integrated farming device model aimed toward elevating farm yield and income.
This is the first time the Ziltawadi tribals have ventured into cultivation of the crop. The other people of this hinterland space have been educated via ICAR’s fruit and plant scientists
Canacona tribals await first tryst with cashew crop
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