students showcased beautiful things made out of paddy straw like mats carpets baskets and paintings he said punjab paved the way for green revolution in the country and the farmers of rajasthan picked up farming from farmers of punjab pointing out the challenges in the presentday agriculture scenario baldev singh dhillon vicechancellor pau stressed on using happy seeder and baler technologies to manage crop residue avoiding excessive use of pesticides in basmati using agrochemicals as per need in various crops adopting kitchen garden gobhi sarson lentil and chickpea concept for nutritional diet and focusing on profit instead of income earlier ismatullah amiri a student of bsc agriculture welcomed the president and assured on behalf of his fellow afghan students that their great experience at pau will help make the country agriculturally independent and advanced narinderjeet kaur a professor from home science department pau said this is a symbolic message that nothing goes wastemanoj punjab governor vp singh badnore urged farmers not to burn paddy straw but adopt new management technologies being provided by the university for the same afghanistan president karzari appreciated the punjabi food and the green fields of punjab the app has been introduced by the directorate of extension education pau to address the queries of the farmers equip them with the knowledge about new crop varieties and their production and protection technologies and provide weather based and other agriculture related advisories from time to time karzai meets afghan students at pauformer president of afghanistan met students from the wartorn country studying at pau sharma from kvk langroya shaheed bhagat singh nagar said this will help all who were once good in such crafts ludhiana the muchawaited kisan mela kicked off at punjab agricultural university pau on thursday he also appealed to the farmers to read pau farm literature and maintain contact with the university through social media and website jakhar urged the farmers to enhance profit instead of productivity reduce the use of pesticides to save environment and conserve water for future generations by evening more than 200 farmers had downloaded the app on their phones students of nss pau presented a nukkad natak addressing farmers not to burn paddy pau teachers pensioners association also distributed pamphlets on stop pollution save punjab farmers should utilize the waste which will help their families turn small entrepreneurship punjab is making progress but soil degradation water crisis and corporate sector in agriculture business are the matters of serious concern he said the threeday event will mainly focus on paddy straw management to dissuade farmers from stubble burning kisan app launchedpau kisan app was launched by badnore at the kisan mela a publication on paddy straw management by industrious farmers of punjab was also released on the occasion i feel happy to see that these students have interest in agriculture as compared to conventional courses he said while elaborating that since agriculture is the backbone of afghanistan i am hopeful that your rich learning at pau will help strengthen agriculture back