more-inChief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will on Saturday inaugurate the distribution of rice produced at the Chavarupaadam paddy collective in Choornikkara panchayat. Effort by a group of youngsters under the self-help group, Adayalam, to produce bumper crop from a paddy field, abandoned for 16 years, has received State-wide attention. The youngsters, led by officials of the Department of Agriculture in Choornikkara, turned the abandoned field into one which made record yield in the State. The normal yield for Kanchana variety is up to five tonnes per hectare and for Uma variety it is five to six tonnes. The record yield was the result of pure scientific management of the crop.

Source: The Hindu March 16, 2017 17:43 UTC