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Grant is given to farmers on paddy transplantation with paddy transplanter machine

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Farmers are being inspired to transplant paddy with paddy transplanter machine by the Agriculture Department of the state authorities. With this contemporary technique, a grant of seven and a half thousand rupees per hectare is given to all of the farmers of all of the areas of the state for planting paddy.

Director of Agriculture Department, Shri Yashwant Kumar mentioned that whereas this may improve the manufacturing of paddy, the issue of agricultural laborers could be solved and seeds could be saved in addition to ease of weeding, hoeing, harvesting and so forth.
Additional Director Agricultural Engineering Shri G.Okay. Pedia knowledgeable that farmers are chosen within the type of cluster for transplanting paddy with paddy transplanter machine. A cluster must be of minimal 4 hectares. A farmer is eligible for grant as much as a most restrict of two hectares.

Mrs. Medhni Verma, a farmer of Ganiyari in Tilda block of Raipur district, is getting transplanted in her subject via Paddy Transplanter machine. For this, he has ready nursery in his subject about 15 days in the past. Similarly, together with Raipur district, all of the districts of the division and Kabirdham, Rajnandgaon and so forth. of Durg division are additionally getting benefitted.

It is noteworthy that in a lot of the areas of Chhattisgarh state, at current paddy is sown via chitka (fence casting) technique. In this conventional technique, the place the consumption of seeds is excessive, there’s problem in weeding, hoeing, harvesting and so forth. In view of the continual scarcity of labor for agricultural work, the pattern of farmers is now rising in the direction of transplanting paddy with paddy transplanter machine. To be benefited from the scheme and get details about the scheme, one can contact the workplace of the Divisional Agricultural Engineer or the Deputy Director Agriculture Office of the districts.