JAIPUR: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget speech has urged states to revise the syllabus of agricultural universities by including zero budgeting, organic farming and modern farming components. The state, which has five agricultural universities in Jaipur, Bikaner, Kota, Jodhpur and Udaipur, have started revising the curriculum.
Currently, none of the universities have any course on organic farming, zero budget farming and on modern farming techniques. However, all of them have been holding seminars, workshops and symposiums on the said subjects and planning to introduce it in the coming years.
