Agriculture is a profitable occupation
if we manage to produce crops systematically,” said Soma Sundar, Joint
Agriculture Director at ‘Raitha Dinacharane’ organised by Joint
Agriculture Directorate, Mysuru as part of birth anniversary of
Chaudhary Charan Singh, former prime minister, at Rajendra Bhavan on
Friday.
After inaugurating the programme, he
said, “Food security is an important factor of our society. Our
population is growing rapidly. Thus there is greater responsibility on
farmers to produce sufficient amount of food to satisfy the existing
population”.
“Although most of our population is
engaged in agriculture, our agriculture production is struck to 250
million tons. Thus, if the farmers adopt the integrated and scientific
farming system, then the agriculture will be a profitable occupation”.
“Farmers must not commit suicide but
they should opt to take it as a challenge and must become capable of
producing more agriculture crops. We must analyse the fact that our
youth are running away from agriculture”.
“Our recent study has revealed that
there is a gradual decline of youth in agriculture. Youth must think
that the agriculture is a profitable occupation when science and
technology are adopted,” he added.
Later Dayananda Murthy, Chairman,
Agriculture and Industries Standing Committee, Zilla Panchayat, said,
“Farmers should monitor the level of the crops and the availability of
sources at their land. In the current condition where the rainfall has
gradually declined, we must move towards the scientific farming”.
“Government must organise more
programmes for farmers to spread awareness about the government schemes.
Because the farmers are future of this country,” he added.
Neema Sultana, President, Zilla
Panchayat, Kalamma Kemparamaiah, President, Talk Panchayat, Mysuru and
more than 200 farmers were present. By raitha.
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