{"id":6292,"date":"2021-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mukti_merged\/mukti-distributed-salt-tolerant-paddy-to-the-yaas-distressed-farmers-of-sundarban\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:00:00","slug":"mukti-distributed-salt-tolerant-paddy-to-the-yaas-distressed-farmers-of-sundarban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/mukti-distributed-salt-tolerant-paddy-to-the-yaas-distressed-farmers-of-sundarban\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukti Distributed Salt Tolerant Paddy  to the Yaas Distressed Farmers of Sundarban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41457 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/mukti-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-03-at-4.24.36-PM-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The devastation of cyclone Yaas had caused a huge ingress of saline water which affected thousands of acres of agricultural land in Sundarban. For the past three months other than distributing relief Mukti, from 3<sup>rd<\/sup> August 2021has started to distribute salt-tolerant verities of paddy to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The infused saline water has increased the salinity of soil and makes the cultivation of regular high-yielding varieties almost impossible for the next few years. The increased frequency of natural disasters may cause food crises in the whole region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41458 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/mukti-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-03-at-4.09.44-PM-1-300x138.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To avoid such unwanted situations Mukti in association with \u201cAID\u201d distributed 700 kg of 7 such paddy verities (Kerala Sundori, Jhumpuri, JP 110, Kolaboti, etc) which are tolerant to high levels of salinity.<\/p>\n<p>We are sincerely grateful to \u201cAID\u201d to be by the side of the farmers during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>140 farmers<\/strong> of Nagendrapur and Kankandighi GP under Mathurapur II block were supported with <strong>700 kg (5 Kg each)<\/strong> of salt-tolerant paddy seed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_29148\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YI_XfIteIwc?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Paresh Purkait, a salt-tolerant paddy harvesting farmer of Paschim Jata, PS Raidighi, 24 Parganas said \u201cYaas had flooded our fertile land and all our crops with saline water by breaching the river embankment. We can\u2019t cultivate any grain for the coming 5-7 years. We appeal to Mukti to support us with salt-tolerant paddy seeds. I am glad that Mukti came to our village to know under which condition we are going through. We are happy that Mukti has promised to be by our side\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devastation of cyclone Yaas had caused a huge ingress of saline water which affected thousands of acres of agricultural land in Sundarban. For the past three months other than distributing relief Mukti, from 3rd August 2021has started to distribute salt-tolerant verities of paddy to farmers. The infused saline water has increased the salinity of&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[580],"tags":[15,14,601,18],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}