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Five caller high-yielding harvest varieties, 36 caller farming technologies, and a applicable handbook were unveiled to marque modern farming simpler and much productive astatine the yearly Krishi Mela 2025, which was inaugurated astatine Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra (GKVK), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru (UAS-B), connected Thursday.
The crops included a high-yield maize, a sunflower hybrid with much lipid content, a crystal maize variety, and 2 improved turmeric varieties, including a uncommon achromatic turmeric.
Minister for Agriculture N. Cheluvarayaswamy inaugurated the mela. He said, “Farming contiguous is much than a livelihood, it is simply a science. With amended seeds, technology, and astute practices, our farmers tin execute much and marque agriculture rewarding.”
Shobha Karandlaje, Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and Labour, said that specified events promote young radical to research agriculture arsenic a promising career.
This year, the taxable is ‘Prosperous Agriculture, Developed India’ and aims to item however science, innovation, and contented tin travel unneurotic to signifier the aboriginal of farming successful Karnataka.
The just besides honoured outstanding farmers and women farmers astatine the State, district, and taluk levels, recognising those who person adopted innovative and sustainable practices. Some of the apical awardees see L.V. Shivaraju from Bangalore South for State-Level Best Farmer, Padmani Kom from Bangalore Rural for State-Level Best Woman Farmer, and M.N. Ravishankar from Kolar with the H.D. Deve Gowda Best Farmer Award.
The four-day fair, which volition spell connected till November 16, volition diagnostic unrecorded tract demonstrations, adept discussions, and exhibitions, giving farmers and the nationalist hands-on acquisition with modern techniques from water-saving methods to climate-smart farming.
