By RAJESH AHUJA in Chandigarh
The future of agriculture in Haryana is surely bright, Hooda quipped. The government has been encouraging farmers to diversify and adopt horticulture in a big way. It has already become lucrative as horticultural crops give more returns per unit area and require less water for irrigation than wheat, paddy and other cereal crops. Fruit plantations, floriculture, hybrid vegetables, mushroom cultivation, bee-keeping (apiculture) and fish farming are steadily attracting farmers, entrepreneurs, investors and businessmen in the State.
Haryana is fast emerging as a horticultural State: it stands fifth in cauliflower production, sixth in pea production, seventh in cabbage, onion, tomato and okra production, ninth in brinjal production and 10th in potato production. Read more>
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