Karauli : Karauli For the past few years, farmers have started using chemical fertilizers extensively in farming in order to increase the yield. Due to which the agricultural production is being adversely affected. Also the soil is becoming saline i.e. alkaline. Farmers have started using urea, DAP, superphosphate etc. in large quantities. A decade ago, farmers used to use twenty kilos of urea and eight to ten kilos of DAP in one hectare during sowing along with irrigation, but in the last few years, farmers used more than one kata of urea in one bigha at the time of irrigation and twenty kilos of DAP during sowing. Have started using twenty-five kilos of DAP. There is a competition among farmers to give more and more chemical fertilizers. Farmers are hardly using native cow dung manure in farming. In such a situation, the land is becoming barren due to the use of chemical fertilizers. Due to decreasing fertility of land, farmers are increasing the quantity of chemical fertilizers every year to increase production.
Farmers told that earlier rainfed farming was done in Mod area without water. But now if there is no rain in a year and if the form pound is not filled then in the absence of irrigation not even a single grain is produced in the land. Earlier, farmers used bulls for plowing the fields during traditional farming, but ever since modernity and chemical fertilizers have started being used in farming, the crop has started getting adversely affected.
