: WB Villages Save Up To 60% Water By Growing Watermelons Using This Novel Method #IndiaNEWS #How To Did you know that the refreshing watermelon has a dozen varieties? There are about 10-12 major watermelon

WB Villages Save Up To 60% Water By Growing Watermelons Using This Novel Method #IndiaNEWS #How To
Did you know that the refreshing watermelon has a dozen varieties? There are about 10-12 major watermelon varieties available in the markets, including Red Candy — a hybrid variety, Sugar Queen, Sugar Baby, Sagar, Sonalika, Red Chef, etc, with the seedless variety being high in demand.
Red Candy is just one of the kinds grown by 20 farmers at Balagarh Block in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. What’s special about this variety, you ask? They’ve been grown using the ‘poly mulching’ technique for the first time.

The 20 agriculturalists belong to Moraghata and Milangarh village at Bakulia-Dhobapara Gram Panchayat under Balagarh block and expect to yield around 460 quintals or 12,500 watermelons from their respective 20-bigha (about 4 acres) of land.
Under the ATMA (Agriculture Technology Management Agency) scheme, watermelon cultivation with poly mulching method was initiated at Balagarh Block on 15 February 2021.
The farmers of these two villages invested Rs 25,000 per bigha (¼th acre) to cultivate watermelons by applying this technology. Each farmer has harvested around 23 quintals of watermelon in one bigha of land. Their trial formula proved fruitful. They expect to garner a profit of around Rs 50,000 from growing this fruit using the poly mulching technique being provided by the State Agriculture Department.
A tiny watermelon growing in the field,
Sanjay Samaddar, a farmer, says, “We faced few initial challenges while growing watermelons using this technique. For instance, we didn’t know the right measure of water to be sprayed. Plants used to get infected with insecticides. Besides, ‘downy mildet?&H??H?HXZ???X??]X?Y]??[??]?Y[?[??8?????]XZ???X??]YH?X????[?????[??X???Y?X?[?H[?H?Y[?[????[??[???[?][[?H?]?[?XK8?'Y?X?[?H?[X??]??[[??]???]?K?]?????]H?H?]?[[??Y[???[??H?[[Y???[]?][?^???[??YH]??][?XX?[??[???Y?H??]??8??H???^Z[??8?'???H^?[Y[?Y?]??[????????[??Y[???H][?[???X???Y[????Z]?[??H][?[???X??]???[??H??[?]?[?Y?YX?H?][?H?Y]???HH?X??[??Z]?]?Y[??????]8?&???X?Y]L??[???]?Z]?]??]???X???HXX?[????]???Y??]?X??]YK?X??H?X????Y??Y[?Y?X?Y]????????]??8?????[?][???[??X??Y?X?[?K???]?Y[??H?[?H[?H?????X??]Z??[Z]Y??[?]?????[????
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