Farmers, happy with the better prices of cotton in the last season, are engaged in sowing more and more quantity of cotton this time. In Tamil Nadu's Trichy, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Thanjavur regions, this time farmers have sown cotton in 84,000 acres, compared to only 50,000 acres last year. According to the officials of the Agriculture Department, this time farmers are giving importance to cotton cultivation instead of paddy cultivation in summer. Because in this they see the possibilities of getting more benefits.
Cost less returns in cotton
Experts say that this state is facing water shortage, which is why gradually farmers have started migrating from paddy to cash crops like cotton. Because the water, cost and labor is much less in the cultivation of cotton as compared to paddy. If we look at the figures, the total cost of cultivation of cotton is around 30 thousand rupees per acre and it gives a return of 1.5 lakh rupees per acre. Whereas paddy ensures a return of only Rs 60,000 per acre. But since there is a slight difference in the time of sowing and harvesting of both the crops, some farmers also cultivate rice as fallow cotton during summer.
40 percent increase
The farmers of Tiruvarur, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam usually sow cotton between the last week of February and the first week of March and the crop is usually ready for harvesting between July and August. Whereas in Trichy, farmers sow cotton using the rains between July 15 and August 15. A Ravindran, joint director of agriculture, Tiruvarur region, said last year the yield was good and farmers were able to produce 15 to 18 quintals per acre. The director of Nagapattinam said that the area under cultivation has increased by 40 percent this year as compared to last year. The farmers had produced 7,799 quintals during 2021-22 as against 11,399 quintals this year.
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