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Sugarcane Institute to come up at Kalanaur: Randhawa

Chandigarh, Jul 15 (UNI) Stressing on the role of sugarcane farming in bringing the farming sector out of the present tough times, Punjab Cooperation Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday said the state government is going to establish a state-of-the-art Sugarcane Research and Training Institute at Kalanaur, which would encourage sugarcane farming and dwell on modern techniques.
Stating this after presiding over a meeting of scientists, as well as experts working with the top notch sugarcane institutes here, the Minister said that in order to give a fillip to sugarcane farming, under the directions of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, a world level modern institute would be set up, which would go a long way in revolutionising the sugarcane farming sector with new and innovative techniques, leading to further augmentation of the income of farmers, while also increasing the sugarcane production.
He said it was with the intention of opening such an institute that a team of sugarcane farming experts visited the Vasant Dada Institute in Pune. Monday's meeting dwelt upon the report prepared by the team that visited the institute.
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