A hi-tech nursery based on Israeli technology is being prepared with the aim of providing high quality plants of various species to the farmers. This work is being done with the cooperation of the Horticulture department under MGNREGA convergence and the Didis of the self-help groups formed under the State Rural Livelihood Mission are also contributing to it. This is providing work to the self-help groups. Giving this information here on Thursday evening, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya stated that the implementation of this scheme will give new heights to agriculture and horticultural crops. These nurseries are being prepared using special technology. The intention of the government is that every farmer of the state should become prosperous and with changing times, the farmers should also become hi-tech, he added. Maurya said that along with promoting plantation, the government was also working to make the farmers associated with horticulture financially strong. Work is being done rapidly with the target of creating 150 hi-tech nurseries under the MGNREGA scheme. The Rural Development department has prepared a proposal regarding this, on which work is being done on a war footing at the ground level. The economic condition of farmers is also getting strengthened due to high-tech nurseries. A target has been set to build 150 high-tech nurseries across the state. As against 125 sites, the work of developing high-tech nurseries has been started at 67 sites, out of which work has been completed at 38 high-tech nurseries, Maurya claimed. The deputy chief minister said that self-help groups had been given the responsibility to look after the nurseries. The members of the group look after the work of the nursery, take care of irrigation, diseases, fertilisers, seeds. For this, women of the self-help groups have also been given training. The government is working rapidly to promote nurseries of high quality and advanced variety of plants. Work is being done to open such nurseries in every district. In these, farmers are being made aware to plant medicinal plants like Sarpagandha, Ashravandha, Brahmi, Kalmegh, Kaunch, Shatavari, Tulsi, Aloe Vera along with flowers and fruits. Farmers are being linked with new technology of plantation to get more profit at low cost. Rural Development Commissioner GS Priyadarshi informed that the process of construction of 150 hi-tech nurseries is being done continuously in the state, in comparison to which approval of 126 hi-tech nurseries has been given at the district level. So far, work has been started at 67 sites, out of which work has been completed on 38 hi-tech nurseries. Out of the completed 38 hi-tech nurseries, seedling production work has started at 11 sites and trial run is in process at 19 sites and eight trial runs have been completed.

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