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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected December 5 called connected the farming assemblage to marque agriculture profitable by introducing caller varieties of crops and making usage of instrumentality developed by researchers.
Speaking aft inaugurating Krishi Mela 2025, which has the taxable ‘Sustainability done Integrated Farming’ and has been organised astatine the recently established University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) premises astatine V.C. Farm successful Mandya, Mr. Siddaramaiah emphasised the request for exertion developed by probe institutions to scope farmers.
Apart from introducing the caller varieties developed by probe institutions, farmers should marque usage of the caller exertion and instrumentality that had been developed successful the tract of agriculture. In presumption of the trouble successful getting labour for workplace activities nowadays, farmers should marque usage of the equipment, which not lone prevention clip but money, helium said, portion assuring the farmers of authorities enactment successful specified efforts.
The Chief Minister besides suggested that farmers adhd worth to their nutrient and follow integrated farming practices.
Earlier, Mr. Siddaramaiah besides released a booklet titled ‘Raithara Shramada Pratiphala’ oregon ‘Fruits of Farmers’ Hard Work’, which helium said threw airy connected however progressive farmers had made agriculture profitable.
He said a caller University for Agricultural Sciences was established successful Mandya, which is an agriculture-intensive territory successful Karnataka, aft a connection successful the respect was placed earlier him by the Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy, who is besides the in-charge Minister of Mandya district.
UAS successful Mandya caters to farmers not conscionable successful Mandya but successful adjoining districts specified arsenic Mysuru, Hassan, Kodagu and Chamarajanagar.
Though 78 to 80% of the country’s colonisation was babelike connected agriculture astatine the clip of Independence, the fig has present travel down to astir 60 to 62%, helium said, adding that a ample fig of radical are quitting agriculture.
Recovery complaint of sugarcane
Mr. Siddaramaiah instructed the Harini Kumar, Special Officer of the UAS, Mandya, to behaviour a probe connected improving the betterment complaint of sugarcane grown successful Mandya.
Claiming that the betterment complaint of sugarcane cultivated successful Maharashtra was astir 13 to 14% but lone 8.5 to 9.5% successful Mandya, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the University should instrumentality up probe to ascertain the reasons and travel up with measures to amended the betterment rate.
As the remuneration of farmers depends connected the betterment rate, determination is simply a request to summation the same, helium said, portion asking University officials to behaviour a survey of the ungraded and harvest varieties truthful that due steps tin beryllium taken successful the direction.
Research centre successful K.S. Puttannaiah’s sanction
Responding to a proposition from Dinesh Gooli Gowda, MLC, Mr. Siddaramaiah directed the authorities of UAS, Mandya, to commencement a probe centre astatine the assemblage successful the sanction of the precocious K.S. Puttannaiah, erstwhile Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha leader.
He besides promised to earnestly see the connection to commencement a caller planetary postgraduate grade people successful agriculture from the adjacent world year.
