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Tuesday, Oct 25, 2005
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Agri-Biz & Commodities
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Events YSR to launch `Lab to Land' programme today Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Oct. 23 FACILITATING a dialogue between agricultural scientists and farmers, the Andhra Pradesh Government is launching an innovative `Lab to Land' programme on Tuesday. The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, will launch the programme at the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University. The university is a project partner. "The `Polam baata' programme is aimed at establishing an effective linkage between research in laboratories and the one-field activity of farmers," a Government release said here. The programme envisaged necessary crop interventions to bridge the gap in crop yields, reducing cost of cultivation and effective utilisation of resources. This, ultimately, would lead to increased farm incomes. On its part, the university would deploy three scientists to each agricultural division in order to exploit the available technologies for increasing farm productivity. In the short-term, the programme would try to plug the gaps between demonstration and actual yields. "The scientists will make the farmers understand the need for total adoption of the package recommended," it said. The scientists would also try to tell the farmers about micro level changes in climate, soil fertility, biological factors and suitability of crops from place to place. In the long-term, the programme would aim to tap the full production potential of crop varieties and to induce high resistance of pests and diseases and tolerance to nutrient deficiencies and water stress and other abiotic factors. "The scientists would be asked to pay visits to the divisions to at least once in a month," it said. Ideally, they would visit the divisions on Fridays. The tasks assigned to them would include monitoring pests, diseases, seasonal aberrations, their impact and nutritional problems. They are supposed to suggest suitable remedial measures on the spot.
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