Recognising Haryana’s performance in the field of paddy production, the State has been selected for the Krishi Karman Award in Rice category for the year 2014-15.
Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare would felicitate two progressive farmers of the State with the “Agriculture Minister’s Krishi Karman Award”. While one of these farmers would be male and the other female.
A spokesman of the Agriculture Department said that the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare would soon organise a special function in which Haryana would be awarded Rs2 crore in cash, trophy and a citation. Both the farmers would receive cash award of Rs2 lakh each and ‘Prashashti Patra’.
The spokesman said that in 2014-15, the State had received deficient rainfall of 47.9 per cent during Kharif season and excess precipitation of 50.7 per cent during Rabi season.
“Despite these adverse conditions, the State Government provided facilities such as increase in irrigation capacity, adequate availability of power, timely distribution of seeds and fertilisers and increase in storage capacity. These led to record production of 4,006 Metric Tonnes of paddy,” the spokesman added.