Barren Land Cultivation
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SKDRDP encourages the cultivation of barren private lands by coordinating with various line departments like agriculture and forest, to facilitate equitable distribution of seed materials and other facilities to deserving farmers.
Un-irrigable dry lands like hilly areas are cultivated with rubber and cashew plantation crops. Special attention is given in these farms to different methods of soil and water conservation such as terracing and bunding that could make the soil arable.
Highlights as of October, 2011:
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Description |
Work done |
Achievements |
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Provision of materials to farmers |
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Areca nut saplings Coconut saplings Cashew nut saplings Rubber saplings |
1,561,000 520,560 598,720 30,13,878 |
Converted 166,211 acres of barren land into cashew nut and rubber plantations |
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Construction of irrigation tanks |
50,318 plots |
Irrigation of 75,000 acres of land |
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Construction of trenches and fences to protect the field from wild animals |
Aided more than 6,87,540 acres of agricultural land |
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Increase of income in families |
Increased the income of more than 18,000 families |
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