Tomar writes to farmers, asks them to adopt best agricultural practices for maximising crop production

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 1

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has written to farmers, appreciating their dedication during the COVID-19 lockdown and appealing to them to adopt best agricultural practices for maximising crop production during the kharif season.

The agriculture minister also had separate advice for different regions of the country, including Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, regarding practices, use of fertilisers etc in view of the crop and soil conditions.

Tomar said agricultural production has become the pivot of the country’s economy and agriculture and villages were at the centre of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, urging them to grow different varieties of crops keeping in view the type of farmland in order to make farming a gainful activity.

While enumerating good agricultural practices and best methods of growing paddy which is the main crop in the kharif season, he also wrote about control of weeds, use of bio-pesticides, organic manure and vermicompost, ridge and furrow method of crop planting, seed treatment of pulses with rhizobium bacteria, balanced use of nitrogenous fertilisers along with potash and phosphorus in accordance with soil health card, and using best irrigation methods.

“We must ensure an abundant kharif crop. In the present situation, farmers are shouldering an immense responsibility of increasing agricultural production not just for their own welfare but for the welfare of the whole country,” he said.