The new know-how of agriculture in Chhattisgarh has proven a brand new path of prosperity to the farmers. The spirit scheme of the Agriculture Department has performed an essential function in exhibiting this new path of prosperity to Bhima, a farmer of Urmapal within the distant district of Sukma district of the state. In Sukma, many of the paddy is cultivated by the farmers of Chhindgarh growth block. But now the farmers of this area are growing their revenue by crops apart from paddy. The youth like Bhima Mandavi haven’t solely taken a step in the direction of prosperity by adopting fashionable agriculture, however are additionally changing into the inspiration and information for the younger farmers of the area.
Bhima Mandavi stated that by district stage coaching and growth stage coaching and academic tour below Extension Reforms (Atman) scheme run by Agriculture Department, the officers of Agriculture Department had been taught methods to get good yield from fashionable know-how. Along with this, coaching was made to make revenue by growing crop productiveness by utilizing natural manure within the discipline. Bhima acquired technical data about fashionable farming by collaborating in growth stage coaching after which began utilizing these strategies on his farm. Along with taking coaching in fashionable agriculture, they’re additionally benefiting from varied schemes of governance. As a end result, Bhima’s revenue nearly doubled because of good yields in farming.
Bhima cultivates greens in his 2.5 acres of arable land for 4 years. He stated that he crops brinjal, ladyfinger, tomato, barbatti, gourd, bitter gourd and many others. yearly. In the previous, Bhima relied on rain for farming. With rain-based farming, they had been in a position to produce a small quantity of greens, which had been solely used at dwelling. Despite exhausting work, he was not getting any profit in revenue. In 2016, by the CREDA Department, the photo voltaic Sujala scheme was benefited which ended their dependence on rain and simply offered water to the crops wanted of their fields. With this facility in irrigation, Bhima has began producing crops twice a yr because of which he’s getting extra revenue.
He stated that different farmers are shifting in the direction of this new know-how as a result of superior know-how of farming below the Atma Yojana and the agricultural work is bettering rather a lot. Due to which all of the farmers of village Urmapal are benefiting from varied schemes of Agriculture Department by adopting the altering situations of agriculture.