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Minister for Agriculture N. Cheluvarayaswamy advised farmers to follow modern cultivation practices and exertion to execute amended output and enactment up economical maturation and summation their income.
Speaking astatine the inauguration of the Raitha Dasara present connected Friday, the Minister said adopting caller exertion entails switching to modern machinery to flooded shortage of workplace labour and execute higher yield.
Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy decried the inclination of galore of the farmers to usage aged seeds that person little illness absorption and urged them to displacement to scientifically improved modern varieties, which would pb to amended yields and greater economical prosperity.
He besides underlined the value of adopting integrated farming done technology.
Referring to workplace mechanisation, the Minister pointed retired that sugarcane harvesters were exorbitantly priced, and the authorities was assisting the SC/STs of the farming assemblage to acquisition the machinery with 50% subsidy. He said that much than ₹1,000 crore has been earmarked for the intent and 334 farmers person already availed themselves of the benefits of the scheme.
The Minister said that each indispensable facilities and guidance to farmers were being extended by the section and they were urged to marque the champion usage of the assorted programmes rolled retired by the government.
“In Raitha Dasara, assorted departments related to agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, dairying, and sericulture person travel unneurotic to enactment up an accumulation to supply accusation related to the respective sectors and the farmers should marque usage of the opportunity,” helium said.
Speaking of the Raitha Dasara, the Minister said that India was a onshore of farmers and agriculture was the predominant enactment of the bulk of the people. By organising Raitha Dasara, the farmers were being honoured, said Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy.
The Minister for Social Welfare H.C. Mahadevappa, Minister for Animal Husbandry K.Venkatesh honoured a fewer progressive farmers, including women farmers, who had made a people successful the farming assemblage by achieving precocious output astatine debased costs.
A handbook connected Agro-Eco Tourism was released to disseminate accusation connected agriculture-related activities successful agrarian areas. Pusha Amarnath, Vice-Chairman, State Guarantee Schemes Implementation Authority, K. Harish Gowda, MLA, Deputy Director of Agriculture B.N. Dhananjaya, and others were present.
As portion of the inauguration, a rally of bullock carts was besides organised.
