New black gram variety offers hope to farmers in Kalahandi Post News Network
Bhawanipatna/Kesinga: At a time when climate change induced irregular rainfall and drought have taken a toll on agriculture, cultivation of a high-yielding variety of black gram has stirred hopes among farmers in Bhawanipatna, a report said.
The cultivation of a new variety of black gram has resulted in a bumper harvest for the farmers in this district. Farmers had initially raised doubts on the yield of this new variety as the saplings witnessed a huge growth and the duration of cultivation was very long.
However, proving the skeptics wrong, the farmers reaped a good harvest from the cultivation.