‘New technologies way to go in farming’

 

Agriculture Reporter

 

THE Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has called on farmers to adopt new technologies in their operations as a way of improving their yield quantity and quality.

Speaking after his recent tour of the Matanuska Banana Farm in Burma Valley, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr John Basera, said this is one of the effective ways of cutting costs for farmers.

He commended the farm for using solar power, saying they have significantly cut on electricity usage.

“Adopting new technologies is the way to go in modern farming. By installing solar plants at Matanuska, they have augmented their energy requirements. This also greatly reduces the electricity they use off the grid,” he said.

Dr Basera encouraged farmers to adopt new farming systems that are consistent with Government’s Agricultural Information Management System (Aims).