Mission Kakatiya Yield Positive results

The Telangana Government’s much-touted Mission Kakatiya programme which entails silt removal of existing water bodies to increase the water storage capacity is already showing positive results. While Local farmers Recently used silt lifted from the water bodies in their respective fields, it was noticed that moisture retention went up by four to seven days, according to a pilot study by ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics).

The improvement available with water bodies content by 0.002 to 0.032 g in the soil load addition of tank silt by 50 to 375 tractor loads per hectare the study showed. And the increase in clay was from 20 to 40 percent in root zone noticed.A decrease in coarse and fine sand was also noticed, while there was no change in pH, EC and organic carbon.

Importantly, an ‘appreciable change’ was observed in available Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus and a moderate reduction in Sulphur.

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