AGRICULTURE LURES IT SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR HAPPY AND HEALTHY LIVING
RAMU THAMPALAYAGOWDER
Assistant Director of Agriculture at Department of Agriculture , Government of Tamilnadu , South India
A software engineer in prakasam district in Andra pradesh , India , is actively pursuing agriculture as his best choice occupation to IT job ..
He says he feels very happier to stay in village to breath pure unpolluted air and live healthier life
After his job as software engineer in USA, he returns home to pursue commercial agriculture as his best alternative occupation that is expected to fetch more income than IT Job
He is practicing precision farming in high yielding hybrid brinjal and tomato vegetables in about 1.5 acres and implement mechanization to tide over mounting labour problem .. And he is used to follow integrated pest and disease management practices to grow healthy crop
In case everything is supposed to go well , he has decided to expand cultivation of commercial vegetables and fruits in a large scale ..
Now in winter every plant needs around 4-6 lit water ..The rated discharge capacity of the emitters is 2 lit per hour being run for 2 hours a day . The optimum water application is to prevent root rot disease that develop very fast in too much soil wetting of soil ..
inter cultivation in 45 days old brinjal field using honda power weeder
on 50 th day the brinjal has covered almost entire ground and found to be bearing lot of flowers and fruits
Harvest of brinjal fruits are expected in a week time
At entire field of brinjal started producing flowers profusely field
Success of an IT software engineer in Hi tech farming is attested by jubilant looking brinjal field
Harvest started
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8 年.Excellent.Please tell me if drip irrigation by gravity feeding is viable.
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8 年thank you RAMU THAMPALAYAGOWDER