Fertilizer Shop of Andaman and Nicobar

Fertilizer Shop of Andaman and Nicobar

Fertilizer Shop’s Agency Name, Address, Mobile Number

Sub Depot Gandhi Nagar, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9476023727

Sub Depot Govind Nagar, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9531807285

Adazig Sub Depot, Adazig Rangat Block, 9474288434

Amkunj Sub Depot, Amkunj Rangat Block, 9476004534

Bajota Sub-Depot, Bajota, 9474205209

Bakultala Sub-Depot, Rangat Block, 9476056261

Basantipur Sub Depot, Basantipur, 9474207206

Betapur Sub Depot, Betapur Rangat Block, 9531841239

Cfo Nallah Sub-Depot, Cfo Nallah, 9474280238

D.B.Gram Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9434275398

Hathilevel Sub Depot, Hathilevel, 9531926224

Kadamtala Sub-Depot, Rangat Block, 9531998676

Kalighat Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9474227939

Karmatang Sub Depot, Karmatang, 9531870855

Kaushalya Nagar Sub Depot, Kaushalya Nagar Rangat Block, 9434275238

Kishorinagar Sub Depot, Kishorinagar, 9474257614

Laxmipur Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9474222252

Mohanpur Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9531824346

Rabindrapally Sub Depot, Rabindrapally, 9434293459

Ramnagar Sub Depot, Ramnagar, 9474293313

Sabari Sub Depot, Sabari Rangat Block, 9531874344

Sagardweep Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9474296064

Shibpur Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9531850404

Sub Depot Billiground, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9474235488

Sub Depot Keralapuram, Keralapuram Diglipur Block, 9476020970

Sub Depot Nimbutala, Andaman And Nicobar India, 8900908158

Sub Depot Rangat, Andaman And Nicobar India, 8900908157

Sub Depot Sitanagar, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9531939370

Sub Depot Subashgram, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9476056730

Swarajgram Sub-Depot, Diglipur Block, 9531839109

Tugapur Sub Depot, Tugapur, 9476024755

Uttara Sub Depot, Uttara Rangat Block, 9474295785

Burma Nallah Sub Depot, Burma Nallah Port Blair, 9476077814

Chidiyatapu Sub Depot, Chidiyatapu Port Blair, 9434297632

Chouldari Sub Depot, Chouldari Port Blair, 9933282926

Ferrargunj Sub Depot, Ferrargunj Port Blair, 9933203030

Mithakari Sub Depot, Mithakari Port Blair, 9476080947

Ramakrishnapur Sub Depot, Ramakrishnapur Little Andaman, 9476029145

Shaheed Dweep Sub Depot, Shaheed Dweep Port Blair, 9531833186

Shoal Bay Sub Depot, Shoal Bay Port Blair, 9434271510

Sub Depot Manglutan, Manglutan Sub Depot Manglutan, 9476075291

Sub Depot Netaji Nagar, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9476023381

Sub Depot Prothrapur, Prothrapur, 9531877479

Sub Depot Vivekanandapur, Vivekanandapur Little Andaman, 9531926224

Sub Depot Wimberlygunj, Andaman And Nicobar India, 9476079252

Swaraj Dweep Sub Depot, Swaraj Dweep Port Blair, 9474288434

Tushnabad Sub Depot, Tushnabad Port Blair, 9476095343

Wandoor Sub Depot, Wandoor Port Blair, 9531874635

Agriculture in Andaman and Nicobar

Agriculture in the Andaman Islands is only about 100 years old though plantation crop in the Nicobar Islands is Centuries old. Prior to the establishment of Penal settlement in 1958, all the Islands were covered by dense tropical forest, the aboriginal inhabitants living life knowing no form of cultivation. In 1870 Lord Mayo took serious steps to making Port Blair self-supporting through the expansion of Agriculture. Convicts were given tickets of leave, encouraging settlement and started clearing of the jungle in order to grow vegetables, fruits, and other crops. The major clearance of forest and settlement was taken after independence with the program of settlement of refugees, landless people from the mainland, repatriates of Srilanka & Burma, and the Ex-servicemen.

The profile and characteristics of Soil in Andaman and Nicobar Islands show considerable variation from place to place, varies from heavy clayey to clayey loams, loams to sandy loams, nutritionally poor, rules out uniform crops for field or for plantation crops as well as large scale production. The cultivation of crops is totally rainfed receiving nearly 3180 mm rainfall annually with an average of 154 rainy days in one year.

Since the beginning, the department of Agriculture is playing a vital role in the overall development of agriculture in the Islands by experimenting at the agricultural stations with all crops of local importance and demonstrating the proven results of these experiments on the cultivator’s own plots. Seeds and seedlings of some of the best varieties in yield and quality cultivated on the mainland have been imported and distributed to cultivators. The Department also devotes its attention to the introduction of newly improved implements and manures and organizing training camps for farmers all over the Islands and conducting study tours to the mainland to make them aware of the most modern techniques of cultivation and adopt the same in their own field.

Better utilization of available land is quite inevitable for the development of agriculture on these Islands. Out of the total geographical area of 8249 sq. km. of land, the land available for Agriculture activities is only about 50000 hectares.

Agriculture in these islands is not very old. The original inhabitants of Andaman lived in isolation and depend on food on forest products, fish and wild animals,s, etc. for their survival. The cultivation of crops was unknown to them. In the Nicobar group of islands, the tribes have been growing plantation crops like coconut and areca nut for centuries. It is, reported that they used to exchange coconut and areca nut for rice and cloth, etc. with foreign shippers visiting these islands from China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

In 1979 when a small colony was established on Chatham Island, the conventional agriculture in a small area was taken up to support the population to meet the demands of vegetables and also a few tropical fruits, etc. however, this project was subsequently abandoned due to aboriginal menace and diseases. With the Establishment of a penal settlement in 1857 and with a gradual increase of settlers by repartition, land distribution started in Andaman 7 Nicobar Islands, providing each settler about 2 ha. paddy land, 2ha. hilly land and 0.4 ha. of homestead land. This marked the initiation of agriculture on these islands. Thus by and large the history of agriculture back little more than a century although the plantation of coconut and areca nut in the Nicobar group of the island goes to the 7th century.

The department of agriculture was established in 1945 to develop agriculture in these islands in a systematic and scientific line. After independence, major stress was under area expansion in agriculture development, and land for agriculture expanded unto the end of the 4th Five Year Plan. To date, agricultural activities are therefore confirmed to be an area of about fifty thousand hectares.

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