Shimla, April 8 -- Pushing for natural farming, the agriculture department has set a target to integrate one lakh farmers with natural farming during the year 2026. In a statement issued on Tuesday, CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the Agriculture Department has set a target to integrate one lakh farmers with natural farming during the year 2026. He said the state government is actively promoting natural farming and continuously encouraging farmers to adopt this method, as it enables them to earn higher profits at lower costs. He added that so far, 2,22,893 farmer and horticulturist families have adopted natural farming practices. The method has reached 99.3 percent of the state's panchayats and was currently being practiced on 38,437 hectares of land.The CM said that more than two lakh farmers engaged in natural farming have been registered, out of which 1,98,000 have already been issued certificates. htc...