:dateline:Concerned over the agrarian crisis in Punjab, team leaders of the All India Farmers Empowerment campaign today said organic and sustainable farming can improve the lives of farmers.
The campaign launched by the rural wing of Brahmakumaris, an NGO affiliated with UN, was inaugurated at New Delhi in September by Union Minister for Agriculture Radha Raman Singh and Punjab Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on November 23 at Chandigarh.
Residents of Abohar welcomed the �Kisan Rath� team which passed through Johari Mandir road and Circular Road on way to the Panchayat Samiti Complex.
Balluana legislator Gurtej Singh Ghuriana said agricultural research institutions had been working continuously in this direction but the Brahmakumaris organisation is not only working for yogic agricultural but also for developing mutual goodwill, brotherhood, respect and elimination of social evils and addictions, which was admirable.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Charandev Singh Mann said the efforts of Brahmakumaris for the prosperity of agriculture and farmers are beneficial to farmers and the government. While farmers will produce more by the yogic agriculture, their health and the economy of the country will also get benefitted. Their research in the field of yogic agriculture can bring a new revolution in development of villages and will give impetus to the overall rural development.
Mann said paddy produce in Fazilka district shot up from 42,000 metric tonne to 95,000 metric tonne in a year. He advised the farmers to cut their expenses to size besides involving adult children in cultivation. They need to be educated to achieve empowerment, he exhorted.
