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Bring more productive technologies to farm gate: Maha DyCM

Pune, June 3 (UNI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Tuesday that the Pune Agri Hackathon has done the work of giving direction to the profitable farming of farmers.
Such activities will be implemented at various places in the future, he announced.
He said that since the agricultural sector faces major challenges such as imbalance in nature, shortage of manpower, increasing costs, availability of water, technologies that give more production at low cost and in time will have to be brought to the farmers.The government, agricultural universities, NGOs and agriculturalists should work together to take this new technology to the farmers, he said.
As many researchers and farmers implementing new ideas are in Pune, they should contribute for the progress of agriculture in the state, he added.
Pawar appealed to the winners in the hackathon to maintain consistency in the use of the technologies presented, and to establish relationship with farmers and conduct new experiments.
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