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Kakodkar for enhancing farm output

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Towards rural uplift: Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, K. Hanumanth Rao United Nations consultant and P. Chengal Reddy, Chairman of FFA at the national symposium in Hyderabad on Thursday.

HYDERABAD: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar has called for increasing agricultural productivity and per capita income of the rural populace by adopting modern technology and creating value addition.

Inaugurating a national symposium on ‘The application of modern technologies for agricultural development’ organised by the Federation of Farmers’ Associations (FFA) here on Thursday, he said that a credible and viable enhancement of wealth generation would enable young people to take up entrepreneurship. This would not only arrest migration from the rural to urban areas but could possibly reverse it.

Referring to the trend of many Indians returning from abroad because of the economic progress in the country, he said a similar scenario could be visualised where people from urban regions would go to rural areas.

Emphasising the importance of technology in improving agricultural production, he said the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre had created 37 new crop varieties. He said BARC was focusing on oilseeds and pulses. “Our endeavour is to enhance seed production of these varieties so that farmers benefit,” he added.

On solid waste management in urban and rural areas, he said that bio-degradable waste through processing could be converted into manure and energy material. As a result, it would curb pollution, save transportation cost to carry solid wastes to land fills and also provide livelihood opportunities to people.

Former engineer-in-chief T. Hanumantha Rao said there was an urgent need to increase crop productivity and suggested the use of remote sensing methods to map areas actually irrigated under each project. FFA chairman P.Chengal Reddy and Scientific adviser to FFA, O.S.Reddy, also spoke.

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