Punjab sets up new agriculture extension bureau to educate farmers

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July 11, 2015 BATHINDA: To promote crop diversification and provide facilities to farmers for making agriculture a remunerative occupation, Punjab government has prepared a blueprint to form a new body "Bureau of Agriculture Extension and Development". Punjab's additional chief secretary and financial commissioner, development (FCD), Suresh Kumar said that the bureau would act as catalyst to promote agriculture research and new farm practices.

He said the bureau would be made operational in a few days after getting go ahead from the chief minister. The bureau would make efforts help farmers have easy access to the new technology to make agriculture remunerative, said Suresh on sidelines of a seminar organized by trade body Indian Cotton Association Limited.

He stressed the need for rationalizing tax structure and to prepare low-cost machinery for cotton growers to avail benefits of mechanization. The FCD said farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan had failed to capitalize on technology upgradation due to which cotton yield in the region was much less than US and European countries. He said there should no tax on the crop inputs and capital goods for farming so that farmers and millers could benefit. The FCD said that since BT cotton concept had lost its sheen, there was a need to have intense research to develop new varieties of cotton.

Speaking on the occasion, PAU vice-chancellor Baldev Singh Dhillon stressed on the need to have more research for enhancing yield of cotton which was low as compared to other countries. He said Punjab farmers and Indian farm scientists were not making any headway to get more out of cotton cultivation. ICAL president Mahesh Sharda, its former chief Rakesh Rathi and Punjab cotton ginners association president Bhagwan Bansal also addressed audience during the seminar

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