TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 29: The agriculture department has selected 30 orchards where citrus fruit plants would be grown with the cooperation of farmers using modern cultivation techniques.

This was stated here on Thursday by District Officer (agriculture) Mian Shafiq in a seminar in Chak 296-GB. He claimed that the farmers who adopted modern agriculture methods were earning more than Rs100,000 per acre from their citrus orchards.

He advised the growers not to irrigate their orchards with tubewell water as it could destroy the plants. Sowing of other crops like fodder and wheat in orchards was also harmful for the fruit plants, he added.

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