Punjab Newsline, Shimla -
CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, while chairing a review meeting of the Agriculture department here said that the state government was committed to promote natural farming and all possible efforts were being made in this direction.
He directed the department to map farmers cultivating wheat and maize through natural farming methods across the state. The CM stated that all farms under the Agriculture department in the state would be fully developed for natural farming by next year, which would focus solely on producing seeds for natural farming. He instructed for establishment of high-tech storage centres for wheat and maize produced through natural farming. He said that one lakh families would be linked with natural farming in the coming year and also directed to explore possibilities to set up a solar power plant in Tal at Hamirpur.
Sukhu said that data collection on natural farming practitioners would also be conducted at the block-level which would be integrated with the Him Parivar database.