The responsibility of educating, guiding and diverting farmers towards a change in crop pattern lies on governments, to prevent farmers from suffering losses by taking up cultivation of only traditional crops, Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy said.
A nine-member team led by Mr. Niranjan Reddy including director of Horticulture L. Venkatram Reddy and Vice-Chancellor of Sri Konda Laxman Telanagana State Horticultural University Neeraja Prabhakar visited Mysuru and Ramanagara (Karnataka) and Hosur (Tamil Nadu) on Saturday to study the best practices in sericulture, bamboo culture and food technology.
As part of their three-day visit, the team had already studied cultivation of sandalwood, vegetable and fruit crops in hydroponic and poly-house methods.
On Saturday, they visited the bamboo research centre of Gromore Biotech Ltd. near Hosur, the country’s biggest cocoon market at Ramanagara and studied mulberry cultivation at Kesturu in Mandya district. The team also had a…