Union finance minister P Chidambaram said that agriultural produce could be increased manyfold in the country if farmers adopted drip and sprinkler irrigation methods. | |
| On the sidelines of the inauguration of 'Hi-Tech Vegetable Cultivation Project' organised by the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), he said that tested methods like these had yielded good results, especially in the cultivation of water-consuming crops like sugarcane asnd coconut. |
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| "The yield of sugarcane doubles under the drip irigation as against in the conventional method. Besides consuming less water, this method has also resulted in higher productivity," he added. |
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