Agri. Department pre-occupied with Digital Crop Survey, might dispense with parthenium consciousness programmes this yr

The Agriculture Department is prone to dispense with the parthenium consciousness programme this yr attributable to pre-occupation with Digital Crop Survey for the 2025 Kharif season.

Parthenium Awareness Week is noticed from August 16 to 22 yearly. In Coimbatore district, the division is known to have deployed its whole manpower for the digital survey, to collect information of 5.38 lakh sub-divisions in 98,000 survey numbers.

Parthenium consciousness programme just isn’t prone to be carried out this yr, based on officers.

After the preliminary teething difficulties in finishing up the Digital Crop Survey, slightly over 10,000 survey information have been gathered in every week’s time. Now that the momentum has been generated, the exercise will collect tempo. On Tuesday alone, information of over 3,200 fields underneath cultivation was generated, a senior official stated.

The division is required to finish the method by this month-end, however, the officers on the field-level are hopeful that an extension can be given until September 15.

The database offers correct, real-time crop space info for each agricultural plot, which is able to assist to reach at correct manufacturing estimation, based on the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare that has developed the Agri Stack in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and different IT legal guidelines of the nation.

Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) is observing the Parthenium Awareness Week, as ordinary.

Under the auspices of All India Coordinated Research Programme on Weed Management sponsored by ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), the TNAU is reaching out to varied stakeholders together with farmers, faculty and faculty college students, farm labourers and sanitary staff, with the notice programme on parthenium weed administration, N. Senthil, Director (Crop administration) in-charge, stated.

Professor and Head of the Department of Agronomy R.Krishnan stated Mexican beetles had been launched into the sector underneath cultivation within the TNAU campus for the organic management of parthenium.

The marketing campaign envisages orienting college students on the ill-effects of parthenium weed and management measures corresponding to cultural, chemical and organic means. Composting know-how of parthenium was additionally demonstrated, Prof. Krishnan stated.