4-Month-Lengthy ‘Farm School on Paddy’ Concludes at Rampur Village in Mayabunder

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 13 November 2025

The Department of Agriculture, by the Union Territory Agriculture Technology Management Agency (UTATMA), Mayabunder, efficiently concluded a four-month-long Farm School on Paddy programme that commenced on July 12.

The initiative aimed to boost native rice productiveness by sustainable practices, cut back dependence on imported rice, and strengthen the livelihoods of island farmers by selling scientific farming strategies and making certain entry to high quality seeds.

The farm faculty was carried out on the area of Ms. Kamla Kullu in Rampur village, the place the ANR47 seed selection was cultivated over an space of 1 hectare. Participants acquired hands-on coaching overlaying numerous phases of paddy cultivation, together with seedbed preparation, nursery administration, transplanting strategies, nutrient measurement, fertiliser utility, built-in pest administration, weed management, crop development monitoring, and document conserving.

The ultimate periods targeted on harvesting, threshing, drying, and storage, offering a holistic understanding of post-harvest administration. Inputs have been distributed to key farmers following the completion of the coaching.

An interactive session was additionally held on the finish of the programme to deal with farmers’ queries associated to departmental schemes and different agricultural points. Around 25 to 30 members, together with farmers, Farmer Friends, departmental officers, and ATMA workers, took half within the programme with nice enthusiasm.