Under the steerage of Agriculture Extension Officer T Nagarjuna, farmers within the cluster are studying to decompose the stubble following tips issued by Nagarjuna

Siddipet: Even as burning of paddy stubble has grow to be a controversial situation in different States, farmers of the Narayanpet cluster are turning the difficulty into a chance to decompose the stubble to counterpoint soil well being.

Under the steerage of Agriculture Extension Officer (AEO) T Nagarjuna, farmers within the cluster are studying to decompose the stubble following tips issued by Nagarjuna. Over 500 farmers adopted the observe earlier than the Vanakalam season. One farmer, Gaddam Balaraju, who practised it earlier than the Vanakalam season, mentioned he received a greater yield than his neighbouring farmers this season.

As farmers are once more getting ready for Yasangi paddy cultivation, the AEO has been busy conducting sensitisation programmes for farmers underneath his cluster. Speaking to Telangana Today, Nagarjuna mentioned he had seen many farmers burning the stubble, which was not solely inflicting environmental air pollution but additionally taking the vitamins away from the soil.

The stubble, underneath regular circumstances, would take 30 to 35 days to decompose naturally. However, it may be decomposed inside 15 days following a particular technique, he mentioned. The farmers have to develop a decomposer by mixing two kilos of jaggery, and 30 ml of waste decomposer powder in 200 litres of water. Once this will get fermented, which usually takes 5 days, it may be sprinkled within the fields 10 days earlier than the farmers start ploughing.

The AEO mentioned stubble burning would additionally lead to soil erosion and trigger the lack of helpful microbes and moisture within the soil. On the opposite hand, the decomposing of stubble was discovered so as to add vitamins resembling nitrogen, phosphorus, zinc, manganese, iron and calcium, which might finally improve the soil well being and productiveness.