The Union Ministry of Agriculture, which is attached to the cotton seeds, has made a major decision. The Ministry has ordered all kinds of seeds selling seeds to provide a brochure with seeds that need to be detailed. The specialty is that on January 15 this year, the ministry gave the order only with cotton seeds. But now it applies to the seeds of all crops other than cotton. Apart from the local language in the pocket, every information required about the seeds will be provided in English.
Why only cotton?
According to a media report, companies filed a struggle on why the cotton crop was included. Since then, this decision has been recognized for all crops. Cotton is cultivated in 1.3 million hectares of land in the country. But over the past few years, the pink Sundi events are on the rise, in the ways of controlling it, and the need for fluctuations in its price is now on a large level. Farmers now come to other crops, including maize, instead of cotton.
Farmers go away from cotton
Because of this, the area under cotton is declining in the country. It comes from 130 lakh hectares of 113 lakh hectares. With this in mind, on January 15, the Central Government issued an order to sell the seeds with a brochure to provide information on seed and crop management to cotton manufacturers. Companies were ordered to provide all sorts of information about the seeds of cotton, maturity, height, what kind of soil, what kind of irrigation, how to be fertilizer, how to be fertilizer, how to manage from fiber quality to agriculture. But the companies opposed this. At the same time, the central government should say that a similar decision should be taken for the remaining crops.
Farmer organizations raised this issue
After this, the central government recently decided that such information should be made in the packets of all kinds of seeds. As for the cotton seeds, it is important to provide information on how far the soil and how far the seed should be sown in the seed bag. In such a situation, there was a need for the technical coalition of the farmer organizations, a brochure with cotton seeds. Milind Tomley, the leader of the coalition, met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and raised the matter. But the seed companies tried to provide information through the QR code in the pocket. He said the government’s order was delayed.
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