So far 160,000 farmers have received benefits during the last one-year (January 2022- December 2022) from the Biotech-KISAN scheme, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology; Dr Jitendra Singh today informed the Rajya Sabha today.
In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Biotech-KISAN scheme has been launched to counsel and to provide solutions to the farmers on the problems related to water, soil, seeds and marketing.
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Under the scheme farmers are provided counselling and demonstrations on improved seed, planting stock of vegetables, interventions for use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR’s), bio-fertilisers, irrigation and protected cultivation technologies, improved livestock, poultry and fishery as well as health management of livestock and poultry, the MoS (IC) said in the upper house of Indian parliament.
