Kakinada, Mar 5th: Farmers of East Godavari district are preferring cultivation in the mode of micro irrigation. Most of the farmers are inclining towards this method as it gives good financial results. This method has picked up momentum as it has many advantages compared to the other modes of irrigation. The advantages include less utilization of pesticides, better crop yield, low water usage, good financial results and many more. In addition to the upland area farmers, the farmers of delta areas are also paying interest on this mode of cultivation as soil born diseases can also be decreased to a larger extend.
Compared to the methods of cultivation in the last five years, the cultivation in this mode has risen from 1,200 hectors to 2,700 hectors. Mr. V. Satyanarayana, additional project director of the Andhra Pradesh Micro Irrigation Project (APMIP) said that the project that was taken up in 2003 covered 172 farmers in the district and subsidiary was provided to farmers with a cost of Rs 28.35 Lakh. In this year 2,700 farmers were covered and the subsidiary was extended to Rs 5.11crore. This tunes to 70 per cent of total income.
Kakinada, Mar 5th: For the fore coming Parliament and Assembly elections, election authorities are making all arrangements for the effective implementation of election code in the district. In this concern a video conference was organized by Chief election officer I.V Subba Rao for all the district...
Kakinada, Mar 6th: A two-day management student’s fete, Caucus-09 was inaugurated at local Rangaraya medical college auditorium on Friday. The program was grandly inaugurated by Andra University professor, Mr. D. Prabhakar Rao and was organized by Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Management and Scienc...
Kakinada, Mar 6th: For the students who were going to appear for the S.S.C public exams 2009, Eeenadu and Narayana education societies are jointly going to organize an awareness program on March 8th. The program will be held at local Gandhi Bhavan near municipal corporation office and the same will...
Kakinada, Mar 6th: The four day workshop organized for cops on Office automation application for police personnel was concluded on Friday. The program was organized by the computer science department of JNTU on Tuesday at university campus. The workshop is all about giving training to the cops in c...
Kakinada, Mar 6th: Police of Central Crime Station (CSS), Kakinada arrested a B.Tech student for involving in the theft of motor bikes at Bhimavaram, Kakinada and Rajahmundry areas. They recovered 8 motor bikes worth Rs 3.20 lakh from him. According to the information given by the police,...
Kakinada, Mar 8th: International women’s day was grandly celebrated by various organizations here in Kakinada on Sunday. The day was organized at local Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University by the center of Equal Opportunities for Women (CEOW).Retired Superintendent of Government genera...
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