@farms challenge ▪Friday- Technology & cultivation techniques (03|08|2018)
- How this Israeli technique is giving a plug to Gujarat’s vegetable growers
CASE OF January ten
Kalpesh Patel, a old vegetable farmer of Prantij, could be a proud father as he was ready to offer his son Ridham a chance to pursue his dream of turning into a technologist.
For Patel, a graduate, farming has ne'er been thus exciting and appreciated than within the last twenty five years. due to Israeli farming technique, Patel and lots of like him from Gujarat have noticed a financially viable vegetable farming chance.
“Unlike within the past, currently we are able to have higher quality and accumulated yield of cauliflower. This fetches higher value evidently, however the first harvest by concerning 8-10 days is that the key to success. The Israeli technique of exactness farming below controlled atmosphere is giving such encouraging results,” says Patel, United Nations agency has sixteen bighas (8 acres) below cauliflower.
Patel needs thirty four,000 seedlings for every acre. The Israeli technique that he has been hoping on for 2 years has helped him double his annual farm financial gain from ₹30 100000 in 2015 to ₹60 100000 within the coming back year.
Indo-Israeli initiative
Set up below the Indo-Israel Agriculture Work set up for exchange of advanced farming technology, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Protected Cultivation and exactness Farming on Vegetables at Vadrad village close to Prantij in Sabarkantha district is providing the coaching and steerage in controlled farming techniques mistreatment web homes and seedlings developed in plug nurseries.
On January seventeen, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably going to go to the CoE at Vadrad to seem the prosperous Plug Nursery farming.
How is it completely different
According to JK Patel, Deputy Director, Gujarat husbandry Department, the CoE was launched in 2015 and has to date equipped concerning sixty 100000 seedlings to concerning nine,000 farmers across the State and in neighbour Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
“We give these phanerogams at a token ₹1 per seedling. the aim is to assist farmers cut back the employment of pesticides and fungicides by enterprise exactness farming. this may conjointly bring down the price of farming. Also, timely sowing and early harvest create it commercially advantageous for them,” Patel aforesaid adding that the seedlings developed at the plug nursery begin to growfrom the primary day of planting, in contrast to standard seedlings, that take 7-8 days to achieve the expansion stage.
The CoE conjointly provides one-day coaching to farmers on best practices of net-house farming and steerage on infrastructure for developing plug nurseries.
Farmers’ advantage
Till now, over 10,000 farmers are trained at the CoE, whereas concerning thirty five,000 farmers are given demonstrations.
The CoE has conjointly helped develop 3 different such nurseries across Gujarat — settled at Bardoli and Dediyapada within the southern a part of the State and Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha. A typical plug nursery having a vicinity of five hundred sq m prices ₹25,000 with a capability of ten 100000 seedlings per annum.
Gujarat has concerning four hundred,000 hectares below vegetable cultivation.
Patel noted that with the assistance of plug nursery, the crop diversity will increase and farmers also can take-up exotic crops like broccoli, cherry tomato, red cabbage and cucumber.
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