The agriculture scientists have called for better use of modern technologies and judicious use of resources in the agriculture sector.
Besides, they have also stressed upon developing sustainable and cost-effective technologies for use by majority of resource-poor farmers.
Speaking at a national workshop on ‘Retrospectives and prospection analysis of Indian agriculture: The roadmap ahead’ organised by the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar at its campus on Monday, the experts also stressed on the need to give maximum exposure to the modern agriculture technology so that policy makers may form the policies for the agriculture sector accordingly.
In his address, Vice -Chancellor of Pantnagar Unviersity, Prof H S Dhami, said that judicious use of resources is the need of the hour, stressing upon developing sustainable and cost-effective technologies for use by majority of resource-poor farmers.
He also dwelt upon more use of agro-meteorological data, hybrid seed, balanced fertilizer besides climate change, bio-safety, crop insurance and processed food.
Former Vice-Chancellor of Pantnagr University, Dr B S Bisht while speaking on the occasion said that agriculture sector in India is a neglected lot at present which needs to be given due importance, keeping in view the fact that more than 50 percent population of country is dependent over it.
He also highlighted contributions of Pantvarsity and underlined the need of increasing the number of seats for agriculture students as per the need of the State and country as well. At the same time, he also opined the Pantnagar university land must be spared for use of national food security efforts only.
Dr J P Singh, Director Experiment Station, GBPUAT, emphasised on strengthening need-based advanced research to come up with new alternate technologies which could not only enhance productivity but also be economical and environment-friendly.
Dr J Kumar, Dean Agriculture and Registrar of GBUPAT, pointed out the stagnation in production and discussed agriculture’s contribution in GDP and also stressed the need to use modern and scientific method of farming.
Among others Dr B B Singh, visiting professor of A and M University of Texas, U.S.A. and other experts were present on the occasion.