K.V. Devaraj, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University Of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bengaluru, on Monday called upon the farmers to adopt integrated farming practices to enhance their income.
Mr. Devaraj was speaking after inaugurating the third Foundation Day programme of the University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (UAHS), Shivamogga, here.
Along with agriculture, farmers should take up poultry farming, pisciculture and diary farming.
The climate in Malnad region was conducive to such allied activities. Agriculture scientists should provide proper training and guide the farmers in this regard, he said.
Agriculture should not remain a means of income, but a way of life. Farmers should develop a professional attitude towards agriculture, he said. G.K. Veeresh, also a former Vice-Chancellor of UAS, Bengaluru, launched ‘Negila Miditha,’ an e-journal of the university, on the occasion.
Mr. Veeresh, who headed a committee formed by the State government to study farmers’ suicides in 2002, said that farmers should adopt shrewd cropping patterns.
Farmers who practice mono-cropping were vulnerable to fluctuations in the prices of agricultural produce. Mono-cropping would insulate farmers against the loss they might suffer due to price fluctuation, he said.
C. Vasudevappa, Vice-Chancellor of UAHS, Shivamogga, who presided over the function, said that the university was providing access to agricultural inputs of high quality to the farmers in the vicinity. The university had distributed 4,000 quintals of sowing seeds and over three lakh planting materials among farmers during 2014-15.
Henceforth, the university would market its sowing seeds and planting materials under the brand name of “Sahyadri”, he said.
P.M. Salimath, Vice-Chancellor of UAS, Raichur, was present.
Source : The Hindu
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