The demand for groundnut seeds, being offered with a 40% subsidy within the State, has come down because the farmers are switching over to different profitable and reliable crops in erstwhile undivided Anantapur district.
As per the Agriculture Department figures, 1,41,892 farmers have proven curiosity to purchase 1,21,818.6 quintals in each Anantapur and Sathya Sai districts, whereas the goal sale of 30% of probably want of the seeds is 2.35 lakh quintals.
Even out of these exhibiting curiosity, solely 54,257 farmers have lifted 45,564.6 quintals, which is simply 1/third of the amount registered by the farmers in Rythu Bharosa Kendras.
Jwalapuram village in Sri Sathya Sai district is an instance of how the groundnut cropped space has decreased from 70% of accessible land 5 years in the past to simply 20%.
A farmer from Jwalapuram, Narasimha Reddy, advised The Hindu on Tuesday that out of somewhat over 2,000 acres of cultivable land within the village, castor is sown in 1,000 acres.
Per acre value of cultivation of groundnut is now ₹35,000, and that too, with a excessive danger of failure, whereas the funding in castor is comparatively low at ₹10,000 an acre with assured revenue/return, the farmers level out including that there’s additionally no risk from animals as they don’t like castor vegetation.
Groundnut is grown in 200 acres, whereas pink gram, Bengal gram, and different crops are sown in 800 acres within the village. The village has adopted the brand new number of castor seed ICH-66 that has been giving constantly good outcomes everywhere in the district. Based on demand from farmers, the ARS Rekulakunta officers procured 2 tonnes of ICH-66 seeds which noticed a excessive demand on Monday, mentioned Centre Head B. Sahadev Reddy.
“I have grown castor in 3 acres for the past two years and got a yield of 7 quintals per acre. The total expenditure on seed per acre is only ₹800 (2 kg of castor seeds per acre), compared to a minimum of ₹6,000 needed for groundnut seed alone and expenditure on other post-sowing activities,” mentioned Mr. Narasimha Reddy.
Currently, the castor seed is bought at ₹25 to ₹30 a kg, which provides a superb revenue and uncertainty can also be much less, the farmer defined.
Another farmer, Kumar Reddy, from Ipperu within the Kalyandurg space, which is predominantly groundnut and paddy sown space, has converted to castor sowing ICH-66 selection with good outcomes final 12 months and was given ICH-5 seed freed from value for testing by the scientists.
Source: www.thehindu.com
