Ludhiana,

The Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana has entered into agreement with M/s Indo Tech Agro Works, Village Jiwan Arain, Ferozepur, for commercialization of “PAU Super SMS” Technology. Dr Navtej Singh Bains, Director of Research, PAU and representative of M/s Indo Tech Agro Works signed the MoA on behalf of their respective organizations.

Dr Manjeet Singh, Head, Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering informed that the “PAU Super SMS” is a unique attachment for combine harvesters which cuts, chops and uniformly spreads loose straw coming out of the harvester during harvesting of paddy. The machine will facilitate the operations of other in situ straw management machinery like happy seeder, spatial no till drill mould board plough etc, which will ultimately stop the burning of paddy straw and help farmers enhance soil productivity with in situ paddy straw management.

Dr S.S.Chahal, Adjunct Professor, Technology and Marketing Cell, PAU revealed that PAU has signed 46 MoAs for commercialization of crop hybrids, technologies, products etc since 2012.