Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
1.6.3 PROTECTED CULTIVATION
• Research on protected cultivation should be taken up in collabora-
tive mode with the SAUs.
• Centre of Excellence in Vegetables (CEV) should be established to
develop package of practices for green houses cultivation of veg-
etables or flowers.
• Large-scale motivation and training to educated unemployed youths.
• Large-scale promotion of low cost structures with low pressure drip
irrigation system with resource poor farmers.
1.6.4 MITIGATION STRATEGIES: WATER AND NUTRIENT
USE EFFICIENCY
1.6.4.1
INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
• Soil and leaf testing laboratories be established in each district and
leaf tissue analysis be used as a diagnostic tool for determining the
sufficiency/deficiency levels of different nutrients.
• Biofertilizers/vermiculture should be used simultaneously reduce
cost of inputs and improve the quality and production.
• Nutrient application should be based on application at right time and
amount with proper placements and to improve fertilizer use effi-
ciency and reduce emission of CH
4
and N
2
O.
• Provide proper training to prepare vermi-compost and use of bio-
fertilizers.
• Promote fertigation.
1.6.4.2
ALTERNATE FARMING SYSTEMS
• Strengthen research on different aspects of Organic farming.
• Crops with comparative advantage need to be identified.
• Farmers need training and financial support to prepare quality or-
ganic manure using gobar gas units, solar energy and bio-pesticides,
