Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In the sphere of agriculture, preservation of forests and pasture lands- (a) planned improvement of agriculture; (b) securing minimum standards of cultivation in the gram with a view to increasing agricultural production; (c) establishment and management of model agricultural farm; (d) the establishment and maintenance of granaries; (e) bringing under cultivation waste and fallow lands vested by the State Government in the panchayat; (f) ensuring conservation of manurial resources, preparing composts and sale of manure; (g) production of improved seeds, the establishing of nurseries of improved seeds and promoting the use of improved seeds; (h) promoting the use of improved agricultural implements and making such implements easily available; (i) the promotion of co-operative farming; (j) crop-protection and crop-experiments; (k) minor irrigation, construction and maintenance of filled channels and distribution of water; (l) raising preservation and improvement of village forests, pastures and orchards; (m) taking steps against harmful animals with a view to protection of crops.