Experts advocate improved seed production system

Hisar, July 11 (UNI) Experts in a seminar on 'Revamping Extension System and Improving the Farm Productivity' suggested here that the area under improved seed cultivation should be enhanced considerably so that enough quality seed was accessible to the farmers in required quantity.

The participants in the two-day seminar, organised by the State Department of Agriculture in collaboration with CCS Haryana Agricultural University (HAU), also discussed a time-bound action plan to meet the scenario of food shortage in the country due to increasing population needs.

Commissioner and Agriculture Secretary Raj Kumar and CCS HAU Vice-Chancellor Dr J C Katyal while speaking in the concluding session yesterday expressed apprehension that the nation was facing food shortage. They appealed to participant researchers and extension workers to take up every issue pertaining to the development of agriculture like a project.

Mr Raj Kumar said that traditional farming in the state would shortly be replaced with multiple-crop commercial farming.

Warning the participants about the repercussions of global warming and the changes occurring due to WTO, Dr Katyal emphasised that implementation of modern practices in agriculture should be introduced in Haryana right from showing of crop upto the marketing of its product.

CCS HAU Director (Extension Education) R K Malik, while highlighting the time, labour and money saving technologies generated by the university for the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and home sciences, reassured their dissemination to the maximum number of small farmers through micro-level planning.

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