However, according to experts, with nearly 80 per cent land in Punjab still under rice and wheat cultivation and the farmers not very receptive to the idea of resource management, the real challenge is to focus on conservation agriculture.
“There can be no big jumps in the production (of food grains) as the productivity level is already high,” says Dr SS Gosal, Director of Research, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ludhiana-d
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[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agricultural-systems
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rice
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wheat
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