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Bio-diesel mission launched

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, AUG.19. A Bio-diesel Mission Programme was launched in Haryana today with the planting of a sapling of Jatropha Cureas by the State Governor, A.R. Kidwai, at the Centre for Research and Application in Plant Tissue Culture at Hisar.

Dr. Kidwai called upon the farmers to adopt diversification in agriculture and take up horticulture and medicinal plants as their cultivation was the need of the hour. He also urged farm scientists of the Haryana Agricultural University to develop high-yielding varieties of different crops. The Director of the Plant Tissue Culture Centre, Vijay S. Beniwal, disclosed that the Central Government also proposed to set up a Bio-diesel Extraction Plant in the State in the near future. He pointed out that since the Central Government was laying great emphasis on Bio-diesel Mission Programme in the 10th Five Year Plan, Rs.1.41 crores had been allotted under this programme for raising plants with the help of tissue culture and conventional methods.Dr. Beniwal said that the Centre would provide plants to Government departments, universities and farmers free of cost and Rs. 10 per plant would be provided to meet after transplantation expenses. About two lakh plants would be handed over to the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University for onward plantation in 125 hectares at Ram Dhan Singh Farm as a Compact Block Demonstration.

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