PATNA: Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday requested farmers not to burn stubble in the fields and asked them to purchase stubble-rippers on which the government will give 80% subsidy.
“The stubble burning in the fields is harmful in two ways. First, the smoke coming from stubble pollutes the atmosphere. Two, it leaves behind carbon which is not useful for the agriculture field, besides killing insects which otherwise act as organic manure for the land,” Modi said while replying to a short-notice question of BJP MLA Anil Singh.
Modi, who is also environment, forest and climate change minister, said the agriculture department has also been raising the awareness of farmers. Singh asked if the government had any planning to prevent stubble burning in the fields after harvesting.
In reply to the question of Congress MLA Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Modi said the government had no plan to pay an incentive money to the farmers on the pattern of Punjab and Haryana to prevent them from resorting to stubble burning. “Instead, the farmers should purchase rippers on which the government is giving 80% subsidy,” Modi said, adding the cost of a stubble-ripper is Rs1.5 to 2 lakh.
Rs100cr for vegetable growers’ cooperatives: The government has earmarked Rs100 crore for vegetable growers’ cooperative committees so that the state becomes the top producer of vegetables in the country, cooperatives department minister Rana Randhir Singh said in the legislative assembly on Tuesday.
Altogether 94 vegetable growers’ cooperative committees were formed in Begusarai, Patna, Nalanda, Vaishali and Samastipur districts, he said while reply to the House debate on the Rs1,997.24 crore budget of the cooperatives department for 2019-20 FY. The cut motion had been moved by RJD member Abdul Bari Siddiqui. The House passed the budget with 85 members voting for and 52 against it.
Singh said computerization had been undertaken in 500 out of over 8,000 primary agricultural credit societies (PACSs) in the state. The aim is to make 38 PACSs as integrated offices during the current fiscal and work on 14 of them had already started.
So far, over 5 lakh persons had become members of the PACS through online registration. They included 1.70 lakh women, the minister added.
“The stubble burning in the fields is harmful in two ways. First, the smoke coming from stubble pollutes the atmosphere. Two, it leaves behind carbon which is not useful for the agriculture field, besides killing insects which otherwise act as organic manure for the land,” Modi said while replying to a short-notice question of BJP MLA Anil Singh.
Modi, who is also environment, forest and climate change minister, said the agriculture department has also been raising the awareness of farmers. Singh asked if the government had any planning to prevent stubble burning in the fields after harvesting.
In reply to the question of Congress MLA Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Modi said the government had no plan to pay an incentive money to the farmers on the pattern of Punjab and Haryana to prevent them from resorting to stubble burning. “Instead, the farmers should purchase rippers on which the government is giving 80% subsidy,” Modi said, adding the cost of a stubble-ripper is Rs1.5 to 2 lakh.
Rs100cr for vegetable growers’ cooperatives: The government has earmarked Rs100 crore for vegetable growers’ cooperative committees so that the state becomes the top producer of vegetables in the country, cooperatives department minister Rana Randhir Singh said in the legislative assembly on Tuesday.
Altogether 94 vegetable growers’ cooperative committees were formed in Begusarai, Patna, Nalanda, Vaishali and Samastipur districts, he said while reply to the House debate on the Rs1,997.24 crore budget of the cooperatives department for 2019-20 FY. The cut motion had been moved by RJD member Abdul Bari Siddiqui. The House passed the budget with 85 members voting for and 52 against it.
Singh said computerization had been undertaken in 500 out of over 8,000 primary agricultural credit societies (PACSs) in the state. The aim is to make 38 PACSs as integrated offices during the current fiscal and work on 14 of them had already started.
So far, over 5 lakh persons had become members of the PACS through online registration. They included 1.70 lakh women, the minister added.
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