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The farmers have misconception that dark green coloured crops with luxuriant growth produce high yields. It is therefore always a challenge to educate farmers to avoid excessive use of urea in field crops. The joint initiatives of Atam Pargas Team and Department of Soil Science, PAU, Ludhiana successfully break the myth of farmers in village Bassian, Ludhiana and lead to remarkable saving of urea.

A field day in this concern was organised by Atam Pargas Social Welfare Council under the leadership of Dr. Nachhattar Singh, Director Atam Pargas and Ex-Vice Chancellor, Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo, Bathinda on April 4, 2018 at Guru Nanak Senior Secondary School, Bassian.The village was adopted under Indo-UK research project ‘Cambridge India Network For Translational research In Nitrogen’ (CINTRIN), PAU, Ludhiana in collaboration with Atam Pargas Social Welfare Council.

Six farmers training camps and series of street meetings were organised to sensitize farmers to avoid excessive consumption of chemicals in agriculture at village Bassian. Sixty farmers were educated to adopt PAU-LCC based urea application during rice 2017 in the village. The farmers on an average saved 75 kg urea per acre and produced grain yield equivalent to their practice of applying 150 kg urea per acre.

Farmer Kulwinder Singh saved 50 bags of urea using PAU-LCC technology in rice. Amanadeep Singh was highly satisfied with PAU-LCC technology and told that he got yield benefit of 1.5 quintal per acre with the saving of 75 kg urea per acre in rice. He further revealed that PAU-LCC technology also reduced his expenditure on insecticides. Another farmer, Rajinder Parkash while sharing his experience told that, the crop raised with PAU-LCC based urea application was although giving poor appearance in comparison with his own practice of applying 150 kg urea per acre, but produced equivalent grain yield. He urged farmers to refrain from raising dark green coloured crops with luxuriant growth those only increase cost of production and not grain yield.

After developing success story of PAU-LCC in rice fields of sixty farmers in Bassian, ninety farmers came forward to adopt PAU-LCC in wheat. All the ninety farmers were seen happy and confident to harvest very good yield from wheat crop raised while following PAU-LCC that lead to saving of 50 to 70 kg urea per acre in comparison with the farmers’ practice.