The focus of the Karnataka Agricultural Policy lies in the concept of Pancha Sutra for Agricultural Development, whose five pillars are: 1. Protect and improve the soil health; 2. Conservation of natural resources, with special emphasis on water and micro irrigation; 3. Timely availability of credit and other inputs’to the farmers; 4. Integrate post harvest processing with the production process, and 5. Reduce the distance between ‘Lab to Land’ in transfer of technology. The Karnataka Agricultural Policy highlights the need to implement a workable strategy for water management in rain fed areas and also adopt the watershed approach in drought prone and water land areas since water resources are the key element in improving agricultural performance in the State. Other critical requirements for agricultural dynamism, according to the Policy include new generation technologies and effective attention machinery for delivering technological products to farmers. The Policy has also recognized the need to have a sharper focus on strategic research for evolving the needed technologies to improve agriculture and states that such research should be undertaken by the two agricultural universities in the State of Karnataka.
Inde · 2006-11-01