Kisan MelasLight house for farming

摘要

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana organizes Kisan Melas/Divas for introducing new technologies to the farmers. These Kisan Melas are organized twice a year before sowing of rabi and kharif season crops in order to sensitize thefarmers about new developments in agriculture. In older times also, the Melas were organized in villages where games like kabbadi, wrestling etc. were organized to inculcate the high values and sense of competition among the people. In Punjab,about 60-70 per cent people resides in villages and are engaged in agriculture as an occupation. Therefore, it is important to organize Kisan Melas, so that the farmers should be made aware about the various challenges prevailing in modern agriculture and the new technologies developed by the University. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana will organize seven Kisan Melas during March before the cultivation of kharif crops. The first Kisan Mela will be organizedat Bathinda on 1st March followed by on 6th March at Ballowal Saunkhri and Naag Kalan, Amritsar; on 8th March at Faridkot and Gurdaspur; on March 15-16 at PAU, Ludhiana and on 19th March at Patiala. Farmers are requested to participate enthusiastically in these Kisan Melas, so that they can be made aware about the different challenges before Punjab's agriculture like depleting ground water table, multinutrient deficiencies, monotonous cropping system, emerging new weeds, insect-pest and diseases, use of machinery like laser land leveller, paddy transplanter, management of crop residues, new varieties, management of poor quality irrigation water etc.