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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Sandip Dighe | TNN

Few takers for govt’s Padkai farming scheme in 3 tehsils

PUNE: The Padkai scheme of cultivation on hillsides, which geologists upheld as a prime cause for the landslide in Malin that killed 151 people on July 30, 2014, has been revived in Ambegaon, Khed, and Junnar tehsils.

Padkai is a tribal practice of creating small beds by cutting into, scooping out and flattening of the hillsides for paddy plantation.

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