The government has roped in Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a consultant, initially for six months, for helping the state in its efforts for crop diversification and management of crop stubble.
The global consultant will suggest the pathway to the government while it prepares its Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture policy, to be announced by the end of this month. On the cards is the shift from the wheat-paddy to increasing the area under Cotton, basmati, sugarcane, pulses and oilseeds. However, wet May (rain 136 per cent above normal) is likely to play truant in the implementation of the new agriculture policy.