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Knowledge, insights and products key for sustainability, workshop told
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Friday, 20 April, 2018, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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India must equip farmers with knowledge, insights and products, according to vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu. He made this observation while addressing the valedictory session of the One Day State Level Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture for Doubling of Farmer’s Income organised by the Government of Manipur and the Central Agricultural University, in Imphal, Manipur, on Wednesday.
Naidu said, “Water conservation is crucial for sustainable agriculture, and there is an urgent need to conserve resources.” He added, “Not only should we construct ponds for water conservation but also convert these artificial water storage structures into active fresh water ecosystems which in turn will be biodiversity spots for the aquatic wealth of the state.”
The vice-president said that global warming was real and affected our lives in every way. According to him, it should be our endeavour to sustain the agricultural production by mitigating the effects of global warming while conserving the biodiversity in ways that are sustainable. “You must ‘dialogue’ with farmers, ‘discover’ new products and practices and ‘disseminate’ new insights and knowledge for development,” he said.
Naidu said that agriculture sector needed a big boost in India and efforts were needed to make it sustainable, economical and attractive. ”We need to focus on the farmer’s incomes as well as on the farm productivity and long-term environmental sustainability,” he stated.
The vice-president said that best practices from traditional farming with latest know-how could play vital role in improving productivity in agriculture. He stated that apart from intensification of agriculture, we must go in for greater diversification. “Farmers should be encouraged to go in for a greater variety of alternative crops like high value fruits, vegetables and medicinal plants,” the vice-president noted.
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