Under the joint auspices of the Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University (JNAU), Madhya Pradesh, Agriculture Marketing Board and the Agriculture Development department, a two-day seminar was organised. The topic of the seminar was ‘Appropriate strategy for organic farming and its encouragement in MP’. The programme was presided over by vice-chancellor Vijay Singh Tomar.
On the occasion, Tomar said that it is time to switch to organic farming from chemical farming. “This type of farming costs nothing and after the green revolution in India, it became self reliant in food sector, but the natural balance has been disturbed due to the use of fertilizers and chemicals. The only way to get the balance back is organic farming,” said Tomar.
The special guest of the seminar, B Gangwar, former project director of Crop System Research Centre, Modipur stressed on encouraging organic farming by discussing burning issues related making the organic farming a profitable business Director, Research Services S Koteshwar Rao said that the sensitivity of the soil, temperature regulation, soil water conservation and using solar energy are the important points of organic farming. “If we keep them in mind and do organic farming it will be profitable,” added Rao.
Director of Directorate of Weed Research Jabalpur AR Sharma, Former Director of Farmer’s welfare and agriculture development Department Bhopal GK Kaushal, Dean, Agriculture Faculty PK Mishra, Director Teaching Dhirendra Khare and Dean, Agriculture University Om Gupta shared their views on organic farming in the seminar. The seminar was conducted by Amit Sharma, while Prof Ml Kewat proposed a vote of thanks.
In the second phase of the seminar, in 11 technical sessions, 34 scientists discussed the importance of organic farming in India, improvement, seed production, quality, model form, how to create dependable farming, conservation, organic fertilizers, soil health, government policy, scheme, the hurdles in the organic farming, production and research and the future of organic farming in Madhya Pradesh. On this occasion many scientists, NGOs and students were present.