Tandrust Punjab Mission helps farmers save Rs 355 cr

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Tandrust Punjab Mission helps farmers save Rs 355 cr

Monday, 18 November 2019 | PNS | Chandigarh

In a major breakthrough, the Tandrust Punjab Mission has successfully managed to curtail the unwanted usage of agro chemicals in the State, resulting in a savings worth Rs 355 crore on the farming input costs.

Informing this, Tandrust Punjab Mission director KS Pannu said that the average consumption of pesticides during Kharif 2018 has been 3838 metric tonnes (MT) technical grade which costs over Rs  2,000 crore.

However, during Kharif 2019, there has been on an average 35 percent reduction in usage of insecticides or pesticides which includes reduction in use of weedicide and fungicide. However, decrease in pesticide usage alone is about 18 percent which amounts to nearly 675 MT technical grade.

“This sizable reduction in consumption of insecticides or pesticides has led to saving of Rs  355 crore at the level of farmers,” he said.

Crediting the achievement to sustained awareness campaign under Tandrust Mission Punjab, Pannu informed that numerous awareness camps, seminars or workshops have been organised in every nook and corner of the State by the officers of Agriculture Department to sensitize the farmers to check the unwanted usage of pesticides.

Pertinently, cotton and basmati rice crops are the main areas where attention was focused for reducing the usage of pesticides, he said adding that a special campaign was launched to ensure the availability of only the high quality chemicals to the farmers.

Besides, vigorous checking and sampling of agro chemicals was done to weed out substandard and spurious products, he added.

Pannu said that reduction in the use of urea by about two lakh tonnes in Kharif 2019 has also considerably helped to prevent the spread of insects which in turn lead to curtailing the usage of insecticides.

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