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Sewage water to irrigate vegetable crops
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 11:52 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Farmers – particularly small landholders – have now opted to use sewage water to increase crop productivity as, according to them, this kind of water carries all the natural contents required to increase the per acre yield. Agriculturists contend that the use of effluent has increased crop yields by up to 25 per cent. Given such claims, most of more...
Farmers advised to irrigate wheat crop sown early
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 2:19 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The farmers should irrigate the early sown wheat crops as per need keeping in view the dry spell in the country's most agricultural plains, the Met office advised. It says in its ten-day farmer advisory that the wheat crop is developing in the country and urged the growers to remove weeds from the standing crops to scale down losses in the more...
