Patiala News:Agriculture department teams active regarding stubble management: Chief Agriculture Officer Patiala

As per the directions of Deputy Commissioner Patiala Dr. Himanshu Agarwal, teams of the Agriculture Department are going to the village level and making efforts to educate the farmers regarding stubble management. Chief Agriculture Officer Dr. Dara Singh, while visiting the fields of Harman Singh and Gurdas Singh of village Dakala, said that there is 2,50,000 hectares of cultivable land in the district, out of which 20,000 hectares is under Basmati. He said that out of this area, about 2,08,000 hectares have been harvested so far and out of this, about 40 to 50 thousand hectares of wheat have also been sown. According to the Chief Agriculture Officer, stubble has been managed by farmers in about 85,000 hectares of land using modern technology and in about 1,00,000 hectares of land, stubble has been managed by using machines provided by the Agriculture Department for modern technology such as super seeder, reversible plough, mulcher etc. The Chief Agriculture Officer said that all the Block Agriculture Officers of the district, Agricultural Development Officers, Agricultural Extension Officers, Agricultural Sub-Inspectors and ATMA staff are going to the fields and appealing to the farmers not to burn stubble and are also making certified wheat seeds for the Rabi crop available on subsidy.