Agri officials inspect villages under United Nations project

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 17

A team of officials of Punjab Agricultural Management and Extension Training institute (PAMETI), Ludhiana, and the Agriculture Department visited Bhoewali, Kayampura and Rajjian villages, which have been adopted under the United Nations Environment Program (UNDP) for promoting alternate management of crop residue and interacted with farmers.

Team members — PAMETI Director Harjit Singh Dhaliwal and agriculture engineer Ranbir Singh Randhawa — also oversaw the sowing of wheat crop with happy seeder in these villages. Dhaliwal said these villages had also managed crop residue during the previous wheat season.

Randhawa said that farmers were responding well to the efforts being made under project and they hope that in other villages too farmers would follow the new practices. Agriculture officials said burning of crop residue affected the soil health.