Time to Adopting Cost-Effective Farming Technology

Aurangabad: By adopting modern technology and supportive professions, the farming community to make maximum use of the farm land available with them, said Haribhau Bagade, The state assembly speaker.

Modern technology was also cost effective so that farmers could afford them, said Bagade while speaking at the Maha-agro, the state level agriculture exhibition being organised in the city.

At the programme, the diary development commissioner R G Kulkarni, the divisional commissioner Umakant Dangat, expert Vijay Anna Borade, and entrepreneur Ram Bhogale were present.

"In the last few years, Agriculture sector has witnessed many positive changes pertaining to the farm productivity. To ensure maximum output from a little piece of farm, farmers have also started experimenting with crop patterns. By adopting modern technology and methods to take systematic crop, if all the farmers pay special attention to farming, they would certainly be benefited," he said.

To earn good income, Bagade advised the farmers to adopt supplementary professions like dairy development, fisheries and poultry farming.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/