MLA Alexander distributes veg seeds
Source: The Sangai Express
Senapati, August 27 2014:
Different vegetables seeds were distributed to farmers by Dr V Alexander Pao, MLA, 47-Karong Constituency under District Horticulture and Soil Conservation, Senapati at DRDA conference hall today.
Chief Guest of the program, MLA Alexander Pao urged the public to give importance to horticulture and its allied plants to enhance the agricultural products rather than concentrating in paddy and few crops.
"Cultivation as the main occupation of common people in rural area, horticulture is very important and is a basic need of the people.
People eat cooked rice with vegetables, cooked as curry or raw in every meal, which is directly related to self consuming products and commercialized crops," MLA Alexander asserted.
The MLA also mentioned that a bill had passed in the recently held Legislative Assembly to stop construction of houses in the area adjacent to fields so it decrease the production of food grains.