45 HECTARE EXPERIMENT LINES UP 200 HECTARE EXPANSE
AMEET OBEROI
DALAPCHAND, 22 July: C-1415, a hybrid, composite and high yielding variety of maize is being grown on a 45 hectare area in the Dalapchand Gram Panchayat Unit [GPU] as an area expansion programme by the Food Security and Agriculture Development Department. This hybrid variety yields 2,500 kg per hectare as compared to 900 kg of the local maize and its seeds can be stored for a longer period of time.
Khorlo Bhutia, Director, Agriculture Department, along with other department officials visited the area to inspect how the crop was faring and also to interact with the concerned farmers and to inform them of other schemes that can be availed by the farmers.
AMEET OBEROI
DALAPCHAND, 22 July: C-1415, a hybrid, composite and high yielding variety of maize is being grown on a 45 hectare area in the Dalapchand Gram Panchayat Unit [GPU] as an area expansion programme by the Food Security and Agriculture Development Department. This hybrid variety yields 2,500 kg per hectare as compared to 900 kg of the local maize and its seeds can be stored for a longer period of time.
Khorlo Bhutia, Director, Agriculture Department, along with other department officials visited the area to inspect how the crop was faring and also to interact with the concerned farmers and to inform them of other schemes that can be availed by the farmers.
