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Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar government has launched an ambitious Rs 255 crore organic farming project. The amount would be spent in the next five years.
Talking to newsmen on Thursday minister for agriculture, Narendra Singh, said agriculture scientists and farmers had expressed their concern over slowing down of farm fertility due to the constant use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides and had requested the government to take measures to improve the fertility of farmland. |
It is on their requests, that the government has launched a project to go for organic farming. The minister said that the agriculture department would provide a maximum subsidy of Rs 3,000 per unit for setting up 10 vermi compost units on their land.
About 11,000 applications from farmers to set up vermi compost units have been cleared and the district magistrates directed to provide the subsidy amount, he added. Two commercial firms have been given the licence to produce and sell vermi compost in the state.
Apart from that, the government was also providing bio-fertilisers to the farmers aimed at improving the fertility of lands.
The minister disclosed the plan outlay of the agriculture department in 2005-06 was a meagre Rs 20 crore, but it was enhanced to Rs 803 crore in 2010.
Narendra Singh said that the government is also committed to provide agricultural equipment and other inputs to the farmers and diesel subsidy to improving foodgrain production.
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