The country’s Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has asked the farmers to focus on natural farming. The minister has said that the government will also give subsidy to the farmers for the first two years. Natural farming will lead to healthy production and high income. Agriculture Minister Chauhan also said that laboratories will be set up in agricultural universities for research on natural farming. Today the Agriculture Minister attended a program in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing the “Regional Consultation Program on the Science of Natural Farming”, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan urged farmers to adopt natural farming. He said that the government will provide subsidy for the first two years. He said that we will try our best to ensure that in the coming times, farmers move towards chemical-free farming so that the coming generations remain healthy.
Shivraj Singh Chauhan told the farmers to do natural farming on a part of their farm. In the first two years when they do natural farming, the yield will be less, for which the government will give them subsidy. Farmers will get 1.5 times more price by selling grains, fruits and vegetables grown through natural farming.
Must do natural farming
During this, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, a minister in the central government, said that he will go to at least one crore farmers and tell them about the features of natural farming. The Agriculture Minister said that we will try to get 18 lakh farmers out of them who take a pledge to do natural farming. The minister said that if you have 5 acres of land, then do natural farming in one acre. If you have two acres of land, then do it in half an acre and do whatever you want to do in the rest.
Laboratories will be set up
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said that laboratories will be set up in agricultural universities for studies in the field of natural farming. Where scientists will study the health of soil, the effect of bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.