Indigenous crops should be protected; farmers can't abandon jhum cultivation completely, says Nagaland official
Our Correspondent Kohima, Oct. 14 (EMN): Indigenous crops should be protected and its ‘purity’ maintained; adopt good cultivation practices, identify medicinal and high-yielding crops with indigenous methods as well as improvise it, said Temsuinla, Joint Director of State Agriculture Research Station, Yisemyong, Mokokchung. She was addressing the inaugural programme of the ‘Confluence of Rural Women’, a workshop on “Millets and women- success, challenges and strategies”, at JMC in Kohima on Friday. The event was organised by Northeast Network (NEN) in collaboration with...