INTEGRATED CROP MANAGEMENT IN PADDY CHANGING THE INCOME LEVEL OF PADDY FARMERS OF NORTH PULINPUR ADC VILLAGE OF TRIPURA UNDER NICRA

D. DEY¹*, S.P. DAS², D. NATH³, L.L. DEBBARMA⁴, R. DAS⁵, S.C. BISWAS⁶, A. CHAKRABORTY^7
1ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri, 799207, Tripura, India
²ICAR-Research Complex for NEH region, Tripura Centre, Lembuchera, 799210, India
³ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri, 799207, Tripura, India
⁴ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri, 799207, Tripura, India
⁵ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri, 799207, Tripura, India
⁶ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri, 799207, Tripura, India
⁷ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri, 799207, Tripura, India
* Corresponding Author : ddey611@gmail.com

Received : 06-07-2019     Accepted : 26-07-2019     Published : 30-07-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 14       Pages : 8762 - 8767
Int J Agr Sci 11.14 (2019):8762-8767

Keywords : Nicra, Paddy, Tripura, Integrated Crop Management
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to ICAR-Central Research Institution for Dry land Agriculture, CRIDA, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059. Authors are also thankful to Director of Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI), Umiam, ICAR Research Complex, Umroi Road, Umiam, 793103, Meghalaya, India for their financial support.
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

North Pulinpur, a water stress village with 100 per cent tribal farmers is under Khowai district of Tripura, India. Paddy is the major crop of the village and they used to grow it in kharif season. Average Paddy Productivity was very low(3.2 ton/ha) in that particular village. Unavailability of irrigated water forced the farmers towards practice of Jhumming .Considering this, some integrated crop management practices in paddy were disseminated during the year 2018-19 by KVK, Khowai in collaboration with ICAR research complex for NEH region Tripura Centre under the project NICRA funded by CRIDA, Hyderabad. The results indicated that significant increase in productivity of paddy was observed in the ICM demonstrated plots whereas doubling of farmers income could also possible in the demonstrated plots due to the high price obtained with seed production. Moreover many of the tribal farmers were awarded for their significant contribution in adopting and disseminating the technology.

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