Expecting Indian agriculture to move into an intensive phase in the near future, agricultural experts and research workers from various parts of the country have suggested future cropping patterns. The experts, who concluded a five-day symposium at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute here [New Delhi] have divided the country into various regions and suggested as many as 325 cropping patterns, covering almost all the major crops, both cereals and non-cereals. At the concluding session of the symposium, Mr. B. Sivaraman, Union Agriculture Secretary, suggested that the most appropriate agency to put across the idea to the farmers was national demonstration.
