VICE-CHANCELLOR OF the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture and Technological University Dr VK Suri today urged agro-scientists to shift agriculture from input-based to knowledge-based for reaping the desired crop production results.
Inaugurating a one-day meet of the inter-departmental research advisory committee at the Krishak Bhavan here Dr Suri said there was an immediate need for breaking the yield barriers especially in wheat production. He said wheat production in the country had awfully stagnated during the past one decade and no effective efforts were made to promote its production through scientific approach.
He advised the agro-scientists to develop such popular technologies for raising the wheat production which could be adopted by ordinary farmers in their field.
He said that technologies were also required to face global competition in the field of agriculture.
He advised the participants that they should popularise the techniques of zero tillage and soil testing for better results in agriculture. He expressed his concern over attitude of the farmers who ignoring the soil health, continued to exploit its productivity. This practice would turn the exhausted soil to become completely infertile, he warned.
Dr Suri advised the agro scientists participating at the research committee meet that they should launch a campaign for improving the soil health in the rural areas with a view to retaining the natural ingredients of the soil required for agriculture products.
{{/usCountry}}Dr Suri advised the agro scientists participating at the research committee meet that they should launch a campaign for improving the soil health in the rural areas with a view to retaining the natural ingredients of the soil required for agriculture products.
{{/usCountry}}Director for Research Dr RP Katiyar while addressing the scientists said that growers should be trained in adopting viable strategies for ensuring high productivity amidst unpredictable weather conditions and scarcity of water for irrigation.
Several agro-scientists who attended the meet deliberated upon strategies for improving the Rabi crop which had been facing weather’s wrath. Scientists said that absence of rain at the onset of sowing of seeds during the Rabi crop in the state this year had posed a serious threat to the crop production.
They suggested that the government should make arrangements for supplying water for irrigation to the farmers so that they could take up timely sowing of wheat and other Rabi crops. In case this was not possible farmers should be asked to sow the late variety seeds with early growing character.