THANJAVUR: Closely on the heels of announcement made by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the Millennium celebrations of Big Temple here recently, the State Government issued orders on September 29 naming the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of cultivation as “Rajarajan 1000.”
Joint Directors of Agriculture of Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts have received the orders stating that SRI method of cultivation will hereafter be called as “Rajarajan 1000” and asked the officials to popularise the new name by putting up boards in fields where SRI method of cultivation has been taken up as “Rajarajan 1000.”
In Thanjavur
P. Loganathan, Joint Director of Agriculture, Thanjavur, said that name boards have been fixed in fields where paddy has been cultivated under SRI method as “Rajarajan 1000.”
In Thanjavur district, it has been planned to raise paddy under “Rajarajan 1000” i.e. SRI method during samba season on 85,000 hectares out of the total area of 1,25,000 hectares planned to be covered. So far 5,096 hectares of paddy has been raised under the “Rajarajan 1000” method in samba. With respect to Kuruvai 11,468 hectares have been raised under this method.
In Tiruvarur
Anbazhagan, Joint Director of Agriculture, Tiruvarur, said that in Kuruvai, out of 11,957 hectares cultivated in the district paddy on 7,652 have been raised under “Rajarajan 1000” method of cultivation.
Out of 7,652 hectares raised under this method, harvest has been completed on 5,574 hectares. With respect to samba it has been planned to raise the crop on 1,32,860 hectares out of which “Rajarajan 1000” method will be tried on 50 per cent of the area.
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