Logo

Logo

Himachal Pradesh

Natural farming to be adopted in all farms of agriculture dept in HP: Sukhu

Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, while chairing a review meeting of the agriculture department here on Friday, said that the state government was committed to promote natural farming and all possible efforts were being made in this direction.He directed the department to map farmers cultivating wheat and maize through natural farming methods across the state.

Around 1.6 lakh Hattis to benefit from ST status: Himachal CM

Thakur said the Central government had fulfilled a long pending demand of the people of the Trans-Giri area who had been struggling for ST status ever since the Jaunsar-Bawar area of the neighbouring state Uttrakhand with almost same identical culture and topographic conditions was accorded tribal status in 1967.