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Ananta farmer successful in cultivation of dates
A farmer by name Eraiah of Venkatapuram village in Madakasira mandal on Karnataka border, who is raising mulberry and flowers plantation, had decided to try dates and raised the same in his 5-acre farm. He planted 350 plants per acre in his agriculture field. He purchased each plant for Rs 200. Now, each plant is yielding 150 kilos of dates.
Madakasira (Anantapur): The district farmers, who are known for experimenting with new horticulture fruit plantation, embarked on achieving what is construed as impossible, that is raising of dates plantation in the local conditions.
Highlights:
- Eraiah, a retired official, raised 350 date plants per acre in his 5-acre farm in local conditions
- Now, each plant is yielding 150 kilos of dates
- Farmers are evincing interest to cultivate dates; ask officials to extend incentives
A farmer by name Eraiah of Venkatapuram village in Madakasira mandal on Karnataka border, who is raising mulberry and flowers plantation, had decided to try dates and raised the same in his 5-acre farm. He planted 350 plants per acre in his agriculture field. He purchased each plant for Rs 200. Now, each plant is yielding 150 kilos of dates.
The farmer Eraiah is marketing the same in Benguluru and Tumkur cities. Two families are taking care of the dates farm.
Hundreds of farmers are visiting the farm and are surprised to see the plants blooming and fruits yielding immensely. Eraiah, a retired official of the Excise department, took to horticulture plantation after his retirement from government service. Talking to The Hans
India, Eraiah stated that the plant reached maturity stage after 3 years and started yielding fruits from the fourth year after flowers first bloomed. The final fruits appeared to the surprise of everyone as the plant is basically a desert crop and is grown mostly in Israel and Middle East countries.
A date tree is surrounded by thorns across its body. The thorns are 4-5 inches long and can easily pierce through a truck wheel tire. So, thrones are removed to enable one to work in date farms. Dates are grown in hot desert where average rainfall is grown less than 3 inches per year amidst summer temperatures of 46 degrees centigrade.
The date tree requires water at its roots. Many farmers, who are evincing interest in the fruit cultivation, are urging the Horticulture officials to extend all the incentives they are giving to other plantations.
By Ravi P Benjamin
