Eat without pesticide live long

Eat what is without Pesticide Spray. Grow natural, eat natural and be healthy and fit. Its all will happen when you will aware about your diet. Specially on vegetables think before eat. Punjab Agriculture University Ludhian located in India having a research project on vegetable crops in collaboration with Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre (AVRDC) and Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) on ‘Improving Vegetable Production and Consumption for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Jharkhand and Punjab’. An annual review and planning meeting of the project was held today in the Farmers’ Service Centre of PAU. In his welcome remarks Dr. M.L.Chadha, Director AVRDC-RCSA said that India being the second largest producer of vegetables in the world occupying an area of 7.00 million hectare with a production of 98.5 million tones contribute 15% of the total world production. The availability of vegetables is about 200 g per capita per day, which is less than dietary requirement of 300 g per capita per day, said Dr. Chadha adding that due to pressure of population, rapid urbanization and industrialization, land available for cultivation is squeezing that necessitates high tech production under net-house. Dr. Chadha shared progress of vegetable growing under protected conditions in India and China and emphasized well planned approaches for recommending sustainable and economical technologies for vegetable production.

Dr. P.S.Minhas, Director of Research, while inaugurating the meeting said that PAU has developed hybrids of various vegetables and passed on hybrid technology to growers through training programmes. He said that PAU has recommended net-house technology for vegetables such as tomato, capsicum and brinjal that has been well received by farmers. He appreciated the role of AVRDC in promoting vegetable crops globally.

Dr. D.S.Dhillon, officiating Director of Extension Education said that home gardening can be one of the ways of increasing production of vegetables. He cautioned that due to the frequent use of pesticides, the problems of residue retention in edible produce need to be addressed. He said that vegetables can play a great role in nutritional security and agricultural diversification.

Mr. Baldev Singh, Director of Horticulture, Punjab appreciated that AVRDC will establish strong partnership with PAU and work on research strategies for year round urban and peri-urban production, supply of safe and nutritious vegetables, adoption and consumption of high value vegetables for improving income and nutrition of communities. He said that in Punjab vegetables are grown on an area of 1.68 lakh hectare producing 2.54 million tons with an average productivity of 15.1 tonne per hectare.

cutting the usage of agrochemicals and nourishing soil through ecological farming

cutting the usage of agrochemicals and nourishing soil through ecological farming
Voice of ecological farming comes out here. Smart Farming’, a forum convened by Greenpeace India launched a dialogue series titled ‘Smart Dialogues’ to discuss smart and sustainable farming solutions with a vision to ensure food security in India. The dialogue series was kicked off with a panel discussion on Soil Health and Agricultural Productivity in Punjab, organized by the forum in collaboration with Punjabi University Patiala, first in a series of discussions to be organized across the country by the Smart farming team.
Scientists, farmers, development professionals and students participated in the discussion and concluded that cutting the usage of agrochemicals and nourishing soil through ecological farming was the only way to save Agriculture in Punjab, which was at the verge of a crash down due to resource degradation. Prof. Sucha Singh Gill, Prof. of Economics and Dean (Research), Punjabi University said that “Punjab is heading towards an ecological disaster due to indiscriminate use of agrochemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides. The degraded soils in the state pose a big threat to food security and can cause serious economic implications not only for the state but also for the country.”
“The chemical nitrogenous fertilizers usage in Punjab has increased to over 200 kg/acre from a mere 5kg/ acre at the start of Green Revolution, rendering the soil sick. There is no microbial activity and the productivity has gone down drastically”, said Mr Umendra Dutt, Executive Director, Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM) in his keynote address. Dr Gopikrishna SR, Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner, Greenpeace India, said that “International scientific community has already realized the need to shift to ecological farming as a paradigm shift from the present mode of agriculture. But to bring changes on the ground a multi-stakeholder approach and broad ended discussions.” Prof. Inderjit Singh, Prof. Sukhwinder Singh (Punjabi University), Dr BS Joia and Dr G.S. Romana (PAU, Ludhiana), Dr Balwinder Singh Butahri (Former Divisional Soil Conservation Officer, Punjab) participated in the panel discussion.