ICAR to prepare plan specifying the maximum sowing area for each crop

Farmers should be encouraged into crops needing less of water, while ensuring a market for what they sow, said ICAR's head

In a year, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will prepare a plan specifying the maximum sowing area for each crop.
 
It will take account of demand and supply, ecology and water availability in an area. Also ensuring that while the acreage under high-water consuming crops such as rice and sugarcane goes down, the country’s food security is not hit adversely. “We cannot sacrifice the country’s food security for the sake of crop diversification,” said Trilochan Mohapatra, head of ICAR and secretary of the government’s department of agricultural research and education.
 
Farmers should be encouraged into crops