Ensuring stern action against the hoarding of PAU sponsored government seeds, the Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Department on Sunday suspended the license of one seed dealer M/S Singla Seeds Company, Grain market Ferozepur Cantt on account of violations of...

In order to ensure availablity of quality and certified seeds to the farmers, the Agriculture and Farmers'  Welfare Department on Sunday suspended the license of one seed dealer and cancelled the license of another dealer in Shahkot over the sale of...

The Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan today said that teams comprising of the Block Agriculture Officers and other employees, have been constituted in order to ensure  availability of top quality seeds of Basmati,Maize, Dal and Paddy for the forthcoming...

Dr Sutantar Kumar Airi, Director, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Department Punjab, today visited Ludhiana and held a meeting with Chief Agriculture Officer Ludhiana Mr Narinder Singh Benipal, and other officials. During the meeting, Dr Airi discussed...

Director Agriculture, P S Rathore today reviewed the progress under State CAPEX plan and Centrally Sponsored Schemes, here at a meeting.Speaking at the meeting, he stressed on strict adherence to norms and guidelines while implementing farmers’ welfare schemes...

The hi-tech machines provided to the farmers on subsidy under In-Situ management for crop residue program of the Punjab Government has proved a boon for the potato growers.The equipment has reduced their cultivation cost as the mixing of straws into the...

In tune with the theme of the mela‘Pavan guru paani pitaa maataa dharat mahat’ (Wind is the teacher, Water is the father, and Earth is the great mother), kisanmela was organised at KrishiVigyan Kendra (KVK), Rauni, Patiala. As many as 138 stalls were put...

Farmer Balwinder Singh Sidhu from Mansa village Gharangna has been conferred with the national award for managing the paddy stubble in an eco-friendly way and not burning it for the past 6 to 7 years. Balwinder Singh, a retired patwari, is among the ten farmers...

A function to create awareness about ill effects of burning of paddy straw was organised at Punjab Agricultural University, here today. This function was organised in collaboration with Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and under the leadership of...

The harbinger of organic farming, progressive farmer Gurwinderpal Singh of Mulianwali village in Fazilka district is yielding better crop by shunning the practice of stubble burning since three years.Owner of 52 acres of land, Gurwinderpal Singh has sow...

A farmer from Talwandi Bhangeria, who had installed a meter on water pumps irrigating the fields while sowing paddy using direct sowing technique has saved at least 62 lakh litres of water.A team from Jal Shakti Abhiyan led by PK Mishra, Director, Financial...

By saving guava, plum, peach, mango and pear etc. fruit varieties with fruit fly trap, the horticulture farmers of the district whereas getting poison-free fruit crops, on the other hand they have reduced input cost of horticulture and boost their economy.Elaborating...

Krishna Devi from village Khaira Kalan in Sardulgarh tehsil on Mansa is the new princess of figs expecting to earn Rs 2 lacs from one acre from 7 months old crop.Married to farmer Sultan, she has been farming with her husband, ploughing with tractors, removing...

Krishi Vigyan Kendra Mohali of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Ludhiana organized One-week vocational training on horticulture entitled “Scientific Vegetable Farming” at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) under the guidance...

Amid the labour scarcity and higher cost woes of farmers in Punjab, at least 17 farmers in the Baddowal village in Dharamkot sub-division joined the bandwagon of progressive farmer Gurjant Singh by adopting mechanised paddy transplanter, which needs mere...

Acting sternly against the suppliers of spurious pesticides and insecticides being supplied to the farmers under the Tandarust Punjab Mission, the Agriculture department has got a FIR lodged against a supplier of such medicine after its samples had failed in...

With an aiming to save the depleting groundwater table in the region, the Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Department has decided to double the area under maize cultivation by encouraging the farmers to shun the cultivation of water guzzling paddy crop.Under...

The second in series of MarchKisanMelas of Punjab Agricultural University witnessed a heavy footfall of farmers and farm women at Regional Research Station, BallowalSaunkhri (ShahidBhagat Singh Nagar). The Mela with the theme “Process agricultural produce...

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fatehgarh Sahib conducted five day training programme on preservation of Fruits and Vegetables from 11 to 15 February 2019. Dr. Vipan Kumar Rampal Deputy Director (Training) Krishi Vigyan Kendra gave details about the training programme...

A five day training programme on Bee Keeping was organized at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fatehgarh Sahib and a total of 22 participants from different villages of the district attended the training programme. Dr. Vipan Kumar Rampal, Deputy Director (Trg.) of...

The Agriculture Department made the farmers aware about symptoms of yellow rust disease on wheat during a farmer awareness camp in village Rahimpur falling in Jalandhar West Block of the district under Mission Tandarust Punjab.Experts including Agriculture...

Farmer Gurpraksah of village Jhanjeri is earning profitable income by cultivating organic wheat farming, on the other hand he is also serving as a guiding light for other farmers of the region. Farmer Gurprakash owns merely 1.5 acre of land and is cultivating...

Four farmers of Bura Gajjar village of Sri Muktsar Sahib District have jointly started the cultivation of Strawberry to give new direction to their traditional cropping pattern. Now, when the production has started, the farmers are very excited and they further...

To promote & increase the active participation of women in agriculture sector, girl students of Agriculture Department of Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh celebrated National Farmer’s Day.Students while interacting with the farmers...

This year the large number of farmers of the district had not burned the paddy stubble and they have also motivated the other farmers to follow the same path. In this way they have contributed in environment conservation. Similarly, Mandeep Singh of village...

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fatehgarh Sahib organized a vocational training on ‘Poultry Farming’ from 26.11.2018 to 03.12.2018 for farmers, farm women and rural youth. Twenty eight farmers belonging to different villages of Districts Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala and...

The department of agriculture and farmers’ welfare on Sunday has organized an expose visit for as many as 600 farmers from district and took them to CII Agro Tech India-2018 in Chandigarh.Divulging the details, Agriculture Officer Dr Naresh Gulati said that...

Motivated by the anti-stubble burning and anti-agriculture residue burning campaign of the Punjab government, farmer Lakhwinder Singh Brar from village Jai Singh Wala has shunned the practice from this season onwards.Taking onus of his duty towards safeguarding...

Breaking away from the wheat-paddy cycle and cultivating vegetables, a farmer named Bhupinder Singh son of Sardara Singh from village Bhupnagar, Tehsil Kharar, District SAS Nagar, has become a role model for several farmers of the area. He is now earning more...

To cut the agri inputs to enhance profits, a farmer from Barnala district has been continuously sowing wheat without burning paddy stubble in his fields. Kulwant Singh Malhi, resident of village Malhian on Barnala-Moga highway, adopted innovative ways for...

Village Deon's farmer Gursewak Singh Gora has been managing the paddy stubble in his fields without putting it on fire. For the last two years he has been using different techniques to manage straw and this season he has extensively used Happy Seeder agriculture...

Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) is toiling hard these days to make a last ditch effort urging farmers to cut their dependence on fire before sowing of next crop these days.To make farmers aware of the disadvantages of burning paddy stubble, the Krishi Vigyan Kendra...

Village Mehma Sarja's farmer Jagtar Brar has been managing the paddy stubble/straw in his fields since 2012. He has also been sharing his stubble/straw management agriculture implements with the other farmers free of cost.Krishi Vigyan Kendra's scientists Prakash...

Rampura's farmer Darshan Singh Sidhu is an example for the paddy cultivators in state to follow. He hasn't put paddy stubble/straw in his fields on fire since 2011. Instead of burning the paddy reside, he has been managing it well leading to increased soil fertility,...

Modern machinery worth Rs. 1 crore 10 lacs has been provided to the farmers of district SAS Nagar for better management of paddy straw rather than burning it in field and the subsidy amounting to Rs. 73 las 4 thousand has been provided to the farmers for the...

Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar Varinder Kumar Sharma today said that farmers must not strew thorns ahead of their future generations by burning paddy straw, which was polluting the atmosphere on one hand and reducing the fertility of soil on the other.Addressing...

Punjab Regional Office, NABARD, Chandigarh launched campaign against paddy straw burning (crop residue management) in about 320 villages in District level training meet presided over by Dr Shena Aggarwal, IAS Additional Deputy Commissioner (D) today at Hotel...