Organic fertilizers make slow and steady progress
...KURNOOL: Penetration by organic fertilizers and bio-pesticides has been slow due to the long wait needed for the result.
However, many farmers who switched over to bio-fertilizers are not complaining.
Vinnuthna fertilizers, a Hyderabad-based company, launched pilot project in Kurnool district by selecting demonstration plots in over 20 villages. Bio-products were supplied free of cost to farmers on trial basis. Representative of the company Ramesh Babu said farmers were asked to reduce their fertilizer and chemical consumption by 60 per cent and supplement it with bio-fertilizers and pesticides.
On the whole the savings per acre were calculated at Rs. 1,500 on fertilizer cost while yield was claimed to have increased by 10 per cent in the first year and 20 per cent the second year onwards.
Most of the farmers who were used to instant growth on account of use of urea and other chemicals were impatient to the slow result of bio-fertilizers. However, most of them agreed to the fact that bio-fertilizers and pesticides reduced pest attack and the plant remained healthier for a longer period.
Farmers of Devamada near Kurnool said the cotton crop which was cultivated under integrated pest management method was healthier and a drastic fall in pest attack was noticed. The ‘kapas' yield from the plots in the first and second picking was higher.
13 December, 2010
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