Farmers Movement Archive

Amritsar district highest pear fruit producer in state

Admn recognises progressive farmer Manjit KaurManjit Kaur, a resident of Khadoor Sahib, has been given recognition by the district administration as a progressive farmer. She being adopter of 'natural way of farming' never uses fertilisers and tries to keep an ecosystem clean. She plows the land minimum and claims that organic farming systems are more profitable. Manjit Kaur was the regular invitee in the 'kisan melas' and other training functions to guide farmers for natural and organic farming. She had visited foreign countries to gather knowledge at the international level. Manjit was the holder of six acre agriculture land and was always of the views not to pollute the environment and it was this that she had never burn crop residue and mixes it in the fields. She not only grows traditional paddy, wheat crops but also grows vegetables, pulses etc. She provides eco-friendly material for bird shelters in her fields.Online poster making contest heldThe Education Department organised a district-level online poster making competition, results of which were declared recently. The competition was dedicated to the 400th birth anniversary of ninth Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur . In the secondary wing results, Sarabjit Kaur of Government Senior Secondary School, Mianwind, bagged the first position, while second and third positions were bagged by Gurpreet Singh of the GSSS Rataul and Ketan Sharma of the GHS Takhtu Chakk, respectively

The Tribune

2020-10-15