Chandigarh, Aug 3 (UNI) Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday lauded the state’s farmers for successful diversification of nearly 2.28 lakh hectares area out of the traditional paddy cultivation cycle in the current Kharif sowing season, even while ensuring successful completion of crop acreage in terms of sowing of the Kharif 2020 crop.
The success of the farmers in their diversification efforts, even amid the Covid pandemic, has also been recognised by the Union Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmer’s Welfare, which documented the same in a Press Information Bureau release of July 31, he pointed out.
The diversification across 2.28 lakh hectares will help save nearly 2.7 billion cubic meters of ground water and about Rs 200 crore power consumption in the state, thus supporting the Punjab government’s efforts to preserve the scarce water resources, Capt Amarinder said.