Diversification
in agriculture
Sir,
This is in
reference to the recent informative
write-up published in your esteemed daily
on dated 3-1-2003 captioned
"Harvesting Gold from Marigold"
written by Dr. G R Baghat, Dr. Parladh
Salathian and Dr. Rakesh Nanda,
Scientists of SKUAST Jammu.
By sharing
the diverse Agricultural Experience of
farmers of village Gazipur Kulian of R S
Pura regarding cultivation of much profit
making flower crop Marigold, Scientists
of SKUAST Jammu have done a great job by
highlighting the importance of
diversification in agriculture. Moreover,
comparison of income between traditional
and diversified practice has added much
more importance to their excellent work.
Need of
the hour in present day fast changing
agricultural scenario is to exploit all
in practice diverse local successful
experiences and then to refine it
scientifically until all desired
characters are met like better quality
and quantity so that more and more
farmers develop an acute sense of
understanding the importance of adopting
diverse Agricultural practices
extensively to earn maximum profit out of
the minimum holding.
Essence of
diversification should be to change the
mindset of a farmer against relying much
on traditional cropping pattern so that
he may not keep his holding hostage to
the prevailing uncertain weather
conditions.
Above all
this kind of novel activity done by the
scientists of SKUAST Jammu is perhaps a
pointer that local needs prioritize
farmer's involvement in any kind of
future research work so that the result
of research ultimately suits him at the
ground level.
Yours etc...
B J Zutshi Jammu
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