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Friday, Oct 10, 2003
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Cultivation Plans to develop wasteland in Sivagangai Our Correspondent
Madurai , Oct. 9 THE Sivagangai district administration has drawn a contingency plan to develop one lakh hectares of wasteland over three years. According to the District Collector, Dr J. Radhakrishnan, the district has a large area of Government and private patta land, rich to cultivate fruit orchards and commercial crops. Copious underground water is also available. The sub-tropical climate is helpful for the development of wasteland in the district. The Centrally-sponsored drought-prone-area programme is already in implementation. Another Centrally-sponsored programme, namely, integrated wasteland programme is implemented in three blocks in the district. Under comprehensive wasteland development programme, a village or micro wasteland with a minimum of 250 acres of private patta land has been selected for planting multi-usage tree saplings and the village development associations and user groups implement the programmes. In addition to these, the national watersheds programme for rainfed areas is to be implemented in 26 micro water sheds each comprising 500 hectres of treatable land in different parts of the district, the collector added.
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