Project to promote pokkali farming

Kochi: Rs. 2-crore project submitted for the development of pokkali
farming in the district under the food security scheme is under the
consideration of the government. Principal Agriculture Officer S.C.
Philip said this at a meeting of panchayat presidents and
representatives of local padashekhara samithis and agriculture
workers' unions held at the collectorate to discuss ways to develop
pokkali farming in the district.The project envisaged financial
assistance of Rs. 10,000 a hectare to those venturing into pokkali
farming after readying fallow land and Rs. 3,500 a hectare in a season
for those who were already into pokkali farming. Philip said the
target was to bring at least 100 hectares of fallow land under pokkali
farming.

The Hindu, July 9