Aiming to give the much-needed push to the State's farm economy, Punjab Government on Thursday announced that Progressive Punjab Agriculture Summit will begin from February 16 to 19 at Chappar Chiri in Mohali.
Besides domestic agriculture experts and farmers, delegates from several countries including Canada, US, Holland, Italy, Israel, Taiwan are expected to participate in the four-day summit to showcase latest technology in farm space. Reviewing the arrangements of the forthcoming event in a meeting with the top brass of the State administration, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that it would benefit farmers to update their skills from interacting with agri-experts during various sessions.
Badal has asked the Punjab Farmers Commission chairman GS Kalkat, also the head of the Technical Committee for the event, to work out modalities to finalise various technical sessions to be held during the summit. “The main aim of this Summit is to find out the ways and means to boost the State’s agro-economy to elicit maximum participation of renowned agriculturists, agri-experts and progressive farmers from across the globe,” he said. The Chief Minister also dwelled on the technical aspects recently introduced in the agricultural sector through live demonstration exhibition and cattle farm stalls etc to be exhibited over an area of about 100 acres during this summit.
The Chief Minister also approved the site plan of main function, exhibition and seminar halls for technical sessions, besides stages for different cultural events.