‘Jal Hi Jeevan Hai’ Scheme
The farmers of three northern districts of Haryana including Ambala, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar have shown a keen interest in crop diversification scheme called ‘Jal Hi Jeevan Hai’ of the Haryana government which promotes to diversify paddy area into maize, arhar dal (pigeon pea) and soybean.
Scheme Features
- Under this pilot scheme, the government initially kept the target of diversifying 50,000 hectares of paddy in particular selected blocks of seven districts including Ambala, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Sonipat, and Yamunanagar and kept June 15 as the last date of registration for farmers.
- But after noticing the scheme received a lukewarm response, from ....
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