Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU June 23: Rajinder Parshad Banotra, a progressive farmer of village Majua Uttami (Bishnah), Jammu has been conferred with Kissan Samman-2014 for his outstanding services in the field of agriculture at recently concluded 23rd Regional Council meeting of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) at Dehradun, Uttrakhand. The award was presented by Harish Chandra Durgapal, Minister for Labour & Industry, Utharakhand.
Director Agriculture, Jammu Dr S. S. Jamwal congratulated Rajinder Parshad Banotra and officers who returned to Jammu after participating in the meeting. He said that his felicitation at national level has made the department proud and his success story will encourage many other progressive farmers of Jammu to adopt new technologies in the field of agriculture.
Rajinder Parshad Banotra has the credit for producing G1, G2 and G3 generations of Chipsona Potato variety seed and its further multiplication to G4 generation of potato produce for making of good quality chips. At present he has done cultivation of Pusa-1509 variety of Basmati in about 20 acres land jointly with other farmers of the adjoining area.
After harvesting the paddy crop the Potato will be sown in the first week of October and again in the mid of January potato Kufri Jyoti will be sown.
Mr Banotra is also taking lead in popularizing the use of modern agricultural machines like Potato Digger-cum-Planter, Potato Grader, Reaper-cum-Binder etc under the guidance of the Agriculture Department. Earlier, he has been given “Nav-Unmeshi Krishak Samman-2014” at Farmers Fair held at Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi in February, 2014 for adoption and introduction of innovative techniques in agriculture.
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