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Farmers paying high costs for cattle feed have some good news to chew on.
They can produce green fodder in an electronic machine without soil in just seven days. A hydroponics green fodder production unit, which can produce it faster than conventional method, was inaugurated at ICAR research complex, Old Goa, by A K Singh, deputy director general, ICAR, New Delhi on Sunday. "The seed has to be placed on a tray filled with water and kept in a machine under the right temperature, light and humidity," said N P Singh, director ICAR, Old Goa.
The conventional method takes 30 to 45 days, but the machine delivers it faster. "A 1.5 kg of maize seed can produce about seven to nine kg of fodder and its height grows to 20 to 25 cms," Singh said.
The state agriculture department has entrusted the scheme to Goa state cooperative milk producers' union limited for implementation. "The project worth Rs 2.20 crore is being taken up under the central government's Rakshtriya krishi vikas yojana (RKVY)," S Tendulkar, agriculture department director said.
http://pakagri.blogspot.com/2011/12/now ... -in-7.html
They can produce green fodder in an electronic machine without soil in just seven days. A hydroponics green fodder production unit, which can produce it faster than conventional method, was inaugurated at ICAR research complex, Old Goa, by A K Singh, deputy director general, ICAR, New Delhi on Sunday. "The seed has to be placed on a tray filled with water and kept in a machine under the right temperature, light and humidity," said N P Singh, director ICAR, Old Goa.
The conventional method takes 30 to 45 days, but the machine delivers it faster. "A 1.5 kg of maize seed can produce about seven to nine kg of fodder and its height grows to 20 to 25 cms," Singh said.
The state agriculture department has entrusted the scheme to Goa state cooperative milk producers' union limited for implementation. "The project worth Rs 2.20 crore is being taken up under the central government's Rakshtriya krishi vikas yojana (RKVY)," S Tendulkar, agriculture department director said.
http://pakagri.blogspot.com/2011/12/now ... -in-7.html
