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All help to farmers for organic farming: Nitish

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar addressing an international conference in Patna on Wednesday.

PATNA: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said his government would provide all possible help to farmers for adopting “organic farming”.

Inaugurating an international conference here, he said elaborate measures have been taken for organic farming in Bihar.

Stating that his government was according more importance to organic farming, he said “we have initiated works on a special programme for promoting organic farming on which Rs.250 crore will be spent.”

“Under the programme, one village in each of the 38 districts in Bihar will be identified as organic village,” he said, adding that the Government had made production of worm compost need-based and in the first year itself around 40,000 farmers reaped the benefits of it.

“Now a programme has been launched for making worm compost commercial,” he said, adding that the government had decided to give 50 per cent concession under the programme to those who plan to set up bio-gas units in Bihar along with production of worm compost.

Noting that the Government had provided free of cost one lakh quintals of “Dhaincha seed” to farmers during this kharif season, he asked them to protest the fertility of land at all costs. “We are also trying to promote bio-fertilizer and organic fertilizer will be made available free of cost to farmers for seed development.”

- PTI

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