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DC asks Smart Farmers to aware others in their areas
DC launches Smart Farmer scheme to save environment from stubble burning, honours 6 Progressive Farmers
Ferozepur, October 23, 2019: Deputy Commissioner Ferozepur Chander Gaind on Wednesday started the smart farmer scheme to encourage the farmers who have shunned the stubble burning by honouring them with the certificates of smart farmers.
Gaind felicitated six farmers one from each development block of the district to recognize their service to the environment. The deputy commissioner said that the scheme is aimed at protecting the environment by curbing stubble burning practice in the district.
A smart farmer, Kuldip Singh from Zira block said that he is having land measuring 38 Acre and has not been burning stubble for four years with the help of the agriculture department.Another farmer Kuldeep Singh shared his experience about not burning stubble and the surprising results in terms of saving money and precious time adding that he said that he is spending a sum of Rs. 88,000 in all 38 Acre farms and earlier he used to spend Rs. 1.50 Lakh only on pesticides, thus non-burning of stubble has turned into a huge benefit for him.
The fertility of the land has been improved, which take less urea and other nutrition elements in comparison to four years back.
Similarly, Harbans Singh of Ferozepur City, Sarabjit Singh of village Padri, Sohan Lal of Guru Har Sahai, Gursewak Singh of Mamdot block and Davinder Singh Sekhon from village Hukumat Singh Wala shared their experiences with the practice of non-burning of stubble and the results achieved through it in farming. These farmers lauded the efforts of the agriculture department to help them in giving up burning practices and providing them technical assistant with the latest technology.
Farmer Kuldeep Singh told the deputy commissioner that he is operating a youtube channel Meri Kethi Mera Kissan to aware other farmers about ill-effects of stubble burning, adding he said that over 2.36 Lakh farmers are in touch with him through this channel.
Deputy commissioner Chander Gaind called upon all the farmers to come forward and aware other fellow farmers in their respective areas besides directing Chief Agriculture Officer Gurmail Singh to invite these progressive farmers in the Kissan Melas as special speakers.
Gaind further appealed the farmers to take the benefit of various schemes of Punjab government to buy the latest machinery at subsidized rates and utilize it to curb this practice.