Patiala News:Agriculture Department is creating awareness regarding stubble management: Chief Agriculture Officer
As per the directions of Deputy Commissioner Patiala Dr. Himanshu Agarwal, under the able leadership of Chief Agriculture Officer Dr. Dara Singh, farmers of Patiala district are being made aware about stubble management. Chief Agriculture Officer Dr. Dara Singh said that the Punjab government and the district administration are motivating farmers for stubble management through awareness camps and street meetings regarding stubble management. In these camps, progressive farmers are making other farmers aware about stubble management. He said that apart from these camps, school children in the district are being made aware about not burning stubble by organizing posters, speeches and slogan competitions and wall paintings regarding stubble management have been done in every village and farmers are being motivated by the district administration to not burn stubble by distributing literature.
Chief Agriculture Officer Patiala visited Lang, Chalela and Rohar villages of Patiala district. He said that farmers are providing full cooperation for the management of paddy stubble. In a very efficient manner, the stubble is being made into bales from the fields through a baler and taken out of the fields and used for various purposes. Along with this, Dr. Dara Singh said that the farmers who are sowing potato crop are using mulchers, reversible ploughs and rotavators to mix the stubble in the fields and manage the stubble. By ploughing the stubble in the fields, the fertility of the soil increases and the environment also remains clean.