DIRECT SEEDING OF RICE
Agriculture department has stepped up efforts to encourage more farmers to adopt the Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) method as a means to achieve better water use and rice production efficiency. The DSR method of paddy cultivation is steadily gaining ground among farmers in the traditional paddy growing areas The COVID-19 outbreak & subsequent lockdown had led to the exodus of labour. Shortage of labour was delaying the planting of rice for two seasons. DSR technology was enough popular among farmers, to convince them to go for it. DSR will save irrigation water, labour & energy (power) in contrast to conventional method of raising rice nursery and then transplanting rice seedlings in a puddled field. It is less time consuming , there’s lesser weed problem, besides there is reduced incidence of nutrient deficiency, especially iron, owing to lesser leaching of nutrients and deeper root development. The technology has a wider adaptability as it is su...