Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Wednesday launched the ‘Jal Hi Jeevan Hai’ scheme here.
The scheme was announced last week to encourage the farmers to adopt crop diversification and sow crops consuming less water like Maize, Arhar etc. instead of water guzzling crops such as paddy so as to conserve water.
The Chief Minister said that a target of 50,000 hectares has been fixed in seven selected blocks for motivating the farmers to grow maize and arhar and assured that each and every grain of farmer’s diversified crop produced in these blocks would be procured by the State Government.