Bihar: Paddy crop to be bumper this year, who will agriculture department help?

Bihar: Gopalganj. As the monsoon has started, the agriculture department has started the preparatory work for paddy cultivation. This time paddy will be cultivated in 97 thousand hectares in Gopalganj district. For this, it is a challenge for the agriculture sector to ensure adequate availability of seeds and fertilizers at the right time. The department has set exact targets for each block, but ensuring availability of seeds is a tough task. However, the department has decided to conduct a material distribution campaign this year. This time giving importance to paddy cultivation using Sriveethi, the farmers in the district are advised to farm only using Sriveethi. After setting the target, the Agriculture Department has also initiated efforts to ensure timely availability of seeds and fertilizers. District Agriculture Officer Bhupendra Mani Tripathi told local media that in addition to setting targets for paddy cultivation, emphasis will be given to paddy cultivation using Srivithi this time. The work of selecting the farmers for this will be started soon. He said that after setting the target, proper campaign will be carried out to provide seeds to the farmers in each block. Apart from this, arrangements will also be made for timely availability of seeds in the stores. Also Read: Sarhasa: Special temple in Bihar needs barbers, paddy cultivation where availability of fertilizers is challenging due to lack of priests, around four thousand metric tonnes of SSP Apart from this, farmers will require about 17 thousand metric tonnes of urea in this campaign. Ensuring timely availability of fertilizers is a major challenge for the agriculture sector. The experience of non-availability of timely fertilizers and seeds in the past years is a testimony that overcoming this problem will be a major challenge for the agriculture sector. Every year there is an allegation that the agriculture department does not supply fertilizer on time. Under such circumstances, it seems that the department is already busy making preparations to get rid of this major problem this year. The post Bihar: Paddy cultivation will be huge this year, who will the agriculture sector help in this way appeared first on Prabhat Khabar.