“NE needs green revolution to increase food productivity”

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Nov 10

Green revolution is much needed in the Northeast region said IIS regional director Mangjangam Thouthang while giving his keynote address on the occasion of the regional orientation workshop for field officers of Agriculture department, government of Manipur. 

He though India is no more an agricultural economy some 70 per cent of its rural households still depends primarily on agriculture for livelihood. Agriculture is the source of livelihood for more than 50 per cent of our population he said.

According to the government sources, the state has a lot of agricultural lands in the country out of which only some are irrigated he said. Therefore it is a challenge to provide water to the non-irrigated lands and make it a suitable adoption of advanced farming he mentioned.

 He continued the prime minister has given the clarion call on the need to increase agricultural productivity with overall welfare of farmers therefore the ministry has been renamed as ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare with a view to develop a holistic approach.

He said that as per the recent government data over 83 lakh and 81 thousand soil samples have been collected and about 30 lakh samples have been tested.

To bring success of the government’s development programs and schemes it depends on the people’s participation he said. The challenge we all face today is to take relevant information to the doorstep of the people he mentioned.

The directorate of field publicity acts as the bridge between the people and the government in a true sense, he added.

The main objective of the workshop is to educate and equip the field officers of DFP on the schemes and programmes of the ministry of agriculture and to enable field functionaries to fine tune for effective publicity campaign he mentioned.

The workshop was held at the conference hall of the department of agriculture, Sajengthong.