KOTTAYAM: The district has set a record by cultivating paddy in the largest area of fallow land in 2017-18. According to the district agricultural office, paddy farming was held in 835 hectares out of 1,615 hectares of fallow land in various places in the district. Lands which were lying uncultivated for the past three years come under the category of the fallow land.
The district agricultural office had given Rs 30,000 for cultivating one hectare of fallow land. Seeds and micro-nutrients were given free to the farmers. A sum of Rs25,000 was given to owner-farmer, Rs 5,000 to the owner and Rs 25, 000 to the one who does the farming.
"The harvesting will be completed by the middle of April. The rest of the land will be cultivated next year," principal agricultural officer S. Jayalalithaa told DC.
The fallow lands cultivated in the respective block panchayats in the district are as follows.
