As part of new-found zeal and initiative to encourage farmers the minister for agriculture Ratan Lal Nath today yet again took to the paddy field of farmer Vishnu Pada Adhikary in Lankamura area west of Agartala. Ratan Lal had received information about Vishnu Pada Adhikary who had planted six varieties of paddy seed in his field. The minister, accompanied by senior officials of the agriculture department, reached the house of Vishnu Pada Adhikary and congratulated him on his success in cultivation of paddy in his fields.

After an initial and informal interaction the minister got down to the paddy field of Vishnu Pada Adhikary and extensively saw and examined the quality of rice before harvesting. Having moved around the field for quite some time Ratan Lal Nath came back to the house of V

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