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DBT SPENT 14 CRORE ON BIORESOURCE
COMPLEXES TO EMPOWER MARGINAL
POPULATIONS
The Department of
Biotechnology (DBT),
Government of India says
that it has established several
rural bio-resource complexes
to provide economical and
technological empowerment
to women and lower sections
of rural population through
selected biotech packages like
cultivation of aromatic and
medicinal plants,
mushrooms, Spirulina and seaweeds, biological control of plant
pests and diseases, vermi-composting, bio-fertilizers; aquaculture;
floriculture; poultry farming and animal husbandry.
DBT supported this programme with financial aid of around Rs 1516 Crores. The State Government Departments and the State
Agricultural Universities have provided technology inputs in terms
of land, building, infrastructural facilities such as road, power,
water, transportation, subsidies such as irrigation, fertilizer etc.
These institutes with adequate extension services and work force
training also provided proven and field tested technological
knowledge and intervention.
Five bio-resource complexes have been established at University of
Agricultural Sciences (UAS, Bangalore), Orissa University of Science
& Technology (OUAT, Bhubaneswar), GB Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT, Uttarakhand) Haryana
Agricultural University (HAU, Hissar) and Marathwada
Agricultural University (MAU, Parbhani).
GOVT TELLS SCIENTISTS & BUREAUCRATS TO
WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE FARMER'S
INCOME
The union agriculture
ministry has called upon the
scientists and officers of
Central and State
Governments to work
dedicatedly to chalk out
concrete strategy to increase
farmers’ income by two fold.
As per the Union
Agriculture and Farmer
Welfare Minister, Mr Radha
Mohan Singh, the average
yield of major crops in India
is very low as compared
with the world yield average and substantial variation in
productivity is visible among the states. Therefore, the need of
the hour is that the scientists and officers of the Central and
State Governments should work with full dedication to firm up a
concrete strategy to double the farmers’ income.
Mr Singh said this while inaugurating a two-day National Rabi
Conference in New Delhi on September 15th while hoping that
it will provide a platform for result-oriented discussions and
sharing of experiences/skills to prepare for the forthcoming
rabi season. Minister said that the two-day National
Conference will provide opportunity to fix crop wise targets, to
put in place a robust arrangement of supplies to different states
and to introduce new technologies and new practices in the
agriculture sector.
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KHARIF CROP SOWING REGISTERS MARGINAL
HIKE, CROSSES 1059 HECTARES
The union
government has also
declared th