By Mayukh Goswami

Mangaldai   : Pawan Borthakur , the Joint Secretary , Ministry of Agriculture , Govt of India on Sunday formally launched a new innovative organic manure commercial production scheme called “NADEP Tank” at Bamunpara village of Mangaldai in Darrang district . The scheme taken up jointly by District Agriculture Department and the District Krishi Vigyan Kendra  aims at construction of a total of five hundred  rectangular shaped concrete tanks  with a size of seventy two cubic feet in twenty five villages and twenty tanks in each such villages. Central Joint Secretary Borthakur ceremonially launched the programme at the house campus of beneficiary youth Manabendra Sarma at Bamunpara by laying the foundation of a tank in presence of several senior officials including District Development Commissioner , Sweety Gogoi Kalita , District Agriculture Officer Nila Kanta Deka , Chief Scientist of District Krishi Vigyan Kendra Dr Pabitra Kr Bordoloi and Agri Sub Divisional Officer Iftikar Noori Ahmed among others .Speaking on the occasion Pawan Borthakur described how the new concept developed by a Maharastra based farmer namely ND Pandhari Pandey , popular in his area as “ Nadep Kaka” may be beneficial for the youths of  Assam to produce organic manure at a very low cost and thus make commercial profit . He urged upon the farmers to use organic manure for the sustainable productivity of the farm land and also test their land to know deficiency of necessary  nutrients of the land area and get a soil health card to treat that land accordingly .