Guide farmers to adopt crop diversification to save Punjab: CM
Asserts that the onus to guide farmers in adopting sustainable agriculture practices lies on scientists.
Asserts that the onus to guide farmers in adopting sustainable agriculture practices lies on scientists.
They were participating in a workshop organized at Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF) at Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh.
Instead of paddy, farmers are ready to sow sunflower, maize and pulses but for that they must get an adequate and assured price.
CM Manohar Lal Khattar said direct seeding of rice (DSR) technology is another first-of-its-kind incentive-driven push which has been introduced as a pilot project by the state government recently to promote water conservation.
Subsequently, the agriculture department has now further planned to enhance the area under cotton cultivation from 9.7 lakh acres to 12.5 lakh acres.
Afghanistan will adopt the crop diversification model from the hill state of Himachal Pradesh. The Afghanistan functionaries visited Shimla, Bilaspur,…
