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Courtesy: The Hindu and Business Line

 

Food security depends on small and marginal dryland farmers: The Hindu - 6th May, 2010

 

About 40 villages in Tirunelveli have stopped using chemical fertilizers.

 

Vilathikulam, in Tuticorin district, being drought prone most of the year, forced many farmers till a few years ago to either sell their lands or leave them barren. But today more than 600 farmers in the region are successfully growing different crops ranging from sunflower to chillies, using low cost input technologies called Panchagavya (PG) for raising their crops. Few years back. “Till a few years back, due to drought, many of the lands in our village lay fallow and unploughed. We walked several kilometres every day in search of potable water. The situation turned even worse during summer. Though a few big farmers continued to carry on with some farming activity, severe shortage of fertilizers forced them also to give up," says Mr. T. Antony a farmer in the region.” Today, inspite of acute water scarcity and power cut problems, we are growing different crops such as sunflower, plantains, paddy, chilli, and groundnut successfully. Some farmers in our area earned nearly a lakh of rupees from growing small onions as intercrops in chilli fields,” adds Mrs. S. Jayalaxmi another farmer.

 

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