Double cropping
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 27 2020:
With the State Government apprehensive that the State may face shortage of rice this year, officials of Agriculture Department, ICAR, CAU and KVKs today discussed double cropping of paddy.
With Agriculture Commissioner Kh Raghumani in the chair, officials of CAU, ICAR, KVKs and District Agriculture Officers held a meeting in the office chamber of the Agriculture Commissioner.
District Agriculture Officers would submit reports to the Government by tomorrow on whether there would be any shortage of paddy seeds for double cropping and also the areas where double cropping of paddy can be done.
Necessary arrangements would be initiated for double cropping of paddy based on the reports which would be submitted by District Agriculture Officers, informed a source.