Chandigarh, Feb 03: Haryana agro industries corporation has decided to set up a modern high-tech farm in the Jind district over an area of 85 acres to boost crop diversity in the state. A spokesman for the corporation said vegetables, fruits, cash crops and medicinal plants would be grown in this farm by adopting latest technology. Besides this, inter-cropping pattern and multi tier agriculture system would also be adopted in this farm so as to encourage the farmers to adopt latest agricultural practices, he said here yesterday.
He said medicinal plants would also be grown in between the space from tree to tree. Sprinkler irrigation technologies and micro irrigation system would be installed in this farm for irrigating the crops. A tissue culture lab would be established to provide healthy and disease free seed and planting material to the farmers.
Bee keeping which increase the crop productivity by cross pollination upto 20 to 80 per cent would also be adopted in this farm. Organic farming would be adopted by using organic manures such as vermi compost, bio insecticides and bio pesticides in this farm. Latest agricultural machinery would be used for cultivation of crops.
He said a demonstration farm of medicinal plants would also be established in the Murthal Centre of Research and Development to impart training on cultivation of medicinal plants to the farmers.
Apart from this, fish and prawn culture was also being set up at Murthal for demonstration purpose and to make the centre sustainable. Bureau Report