Thursday 22 January 2015

‘Usher in another Green Revolution, focus on dry land farming’


P.M. Salimath, Vice-Chancellor, University of Agricultural Secience (UAS) Raichur, has underlined the need for a second Green Revolution with a focus on improving the yield from dry land farming.
Presiding over the inaguration of a Krishi Mela organised at the Agricultural Research Station at Hagari, on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday, he said that the first Green Revolution had helped improve agricultural production to a great extent. Over the years, agricultural production had got stagnated and efforts had to be made to break it by launching a second Green Revolution with stress on improving the yield from dry land, which depend on the vagaries of monsoon, and constitute around 70 per cent of the total cultivable land in the country.
“Adopting improved farm techniques and mechanisation, advanced agricultural practices like conservation of moisture in dry land, soil conservation, use of micro-nutrients, quality seed variety and judicious use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides will help farmers get more yield even from dry land. Integrated farming is ideal for small and marginal farmers as it will fetch them regular income,” he said.
Lakshmikant Reddy, president of the Ballari District Krishik Samaj, alleged that the authorities were not fixing scientific prices for agriculture produce. A large number of farmers visited the demonstration plots of drought-resistant Navane and Bengal gram varieties.
Krishi Mela held at Hagari near Ballari

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