CICR - NAIP adopt Vill. Nezadela Kalan and Jhompraa to promote Innovative Cotton Farming
SIRSA NEWS ( www.SirsaNews.com )
26 May, 2010
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Cotton growers of villages of Nezadela Kalan and Jhompraa have a new role apart from just growing cotton now they are a part of the research team of joint project of CICR (Central Institute for Cotton Research) Sirsa and NAIP (National Agricultural Innovation Project of Indian Council of Agricultural Research) funded by World Bank.
CICR Sirsa station shall associate more than 50 farmers of these two villages and sow new varieties of cotton on approximately 100 acres of land, CICR shall closely monitor along with the farmers the growth and development of these varieties in real field trials, of these villages where cotton is conventionally grown. “Feed back from the first hand experience of farmers is of prime importance in reaching the conclusive reports of any project, that is why we are associating farmers who had been into Cotton farming since decades.” Dr. D. Monga informed Sirsa news. The expenditure and all inputs shall not be borne by these farmers, instead on the harvesting of the crop the produce shall be purchased by Mumbai based CIRCOT and the profits after deducing the expenditure shall be handed over to the farmers.
Initially the trials shall be on 2488 variety of cotton. Dr. Rishi Kumar who is associated with this project shall coordinate all the operations. Studies of Population dynamics of mealy bug, mirid bug, Pink bollworm and other cotton pests in different cropping system scenarios, Population dynamics of target pests, GIS technique to study cotton based cropping systems for spatial and temporal relationships for an identified location and Population dynamics in cropping systems for validation shall be carried out.
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