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Spurious fertiliser and pesticides manufacturing unit sealed
Posted by ganesh in Agriculture, Departments, Erode, Health, Other, arrested, illegal, police on August 30th, 2010
A spurious fertiliser and pesticides manufacturing unit at Kavindapady near here has been sealed by Agriculture department officials.
This followed complaints from farmers that fertiliser purchased from the unit had damaged their turmeric crop. The farmers had also resorted to a road-roko here last week in this regard.
Department officials said a raid on the unit revealed that the ‘fertiliser’ was being packed and put in bags with the labels of popular fertiliser companies. These were then sold in the market.
A search was on for the owner of the unit while his wife and a saleswoman were arrested,
19th century Tamil Nadu breeding centre one of South Asia’s largest animal farm
Posted by ganesh in Agriculture, Krishnagiri, Others, government on December 3rd, 2009
A 19th century breeding centre in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu has become one of the largest animal farm in South Asia.
The cattle-breeding station was handed over to the Agriculture department of Madras on September 1, 1924.
It was later reformed as a livestock research station when it was taken over by the Madras Civil Veterinary Department, for maintaining the purity of Indian milk breeds of cattle and to conduct basic research on animal breeding.
The farm was renamed as District Livestock farm in January 1970.
The sections functioning in it include longstable diary, progeny testing scheme, horse section, poultry section, chick hatchery and sheep and piggery section.
“The area of the farm is 1641 acres, divided into 46, the highest altitude from the sea level is 3015 feet. The minimum temperature is about 15 to 20 degree Celsius and maximum is 30 to 35 degree Celsius. The average rainfall is 840 millimetres, which is about 84 centimetres. There are 17 sections in this farm and this is one of the biggest farms in South Asia,” said Gnanaupakaram, Deputy Director of Livestock Farm.
The farm is known for the breeding of rare varieties of cows and bulls like the one of Sindhi bulls. Different breeds of cows such as Jersey, Friesian, Cross-bred Friesian, Cross-bred Jersey and Kangayam are also reared in the farm.
The farm has been supplying cattle, both infant and adult, to various parts of the country and states.
Besides trading cattle and cattle produce, the farm also provides training to various doctors, inspectors and even farmers on livestock maintenance.
The landscape and the climatic conditions of the region also play an important role in the productivity of the farm.
The farm still follows traditional methods of breeding and preservation. (ANI)
Agriculture Department officials hopeful of Samba transplantation over in 1,18,000 hectares
Posted by ganesh in Agriculture, Public, Thanjavur on November 17th, 2009
Farm women removing weeds from a field near Kurunkulam in Thanjavur
Samba transplantation has been completed on 1,18,000 hectares against the target of 1,45,000 hectares in Thanjavur district till Monday. Aided by the continuous downpour, farmers have transplanted the crop at many places in the district. At present the transplantation was going on in Pattukottai and Peravurani areas.
Agriculture Department officials expected the transplantation to go on till the end of this month in areas irrigated by Cauvery and Grand Anaicut canal. In areas like Budalur, which were irrigated by Uyyakondan canal and New Kattalai canal, transplantation was expected to go on till December 15.
The farmers were raising the crop varieties ADT 38, ADT39 and CO43 which had a duration of 120 days. Major area had come under CR1009 which had a duration of 155 to 160 days. “We are hopeful of achieving the target of 1,45,000 hectares,” officials said.
The amount of rainfall recorded till 8 a.m. on Monday in mm: Nannilam 50, Lower Anaicut 12, Mannargudi 6, Needamangalam 6, Peravurani 17, Orathanadu 5, Orathanadu 5, Madukkur 5, Thanjavur 5, Papanasam 5, Kumbakonam 7.
Water level at the Mettur dam stood at 85.03 feet. The storage was 47.15 tmc feet. The inflow into the dam was 8,298 cusecs.
There was no discharge from the dam due to rain in the delta districts.
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