Lalitpur, Mar 3 : Minister for Agriculture Chakra Prasad Bastola has said that the time has come to evaluate the impact seen on agricultural output and the number of farmers benefiting from enforcement of the 20-year Agricultural Plan.

Mr. Bastola, who was distributing certificates to the participants of a week long seminar on soil management organised by the Department of Agriculture, Soil Test and Service Division the other day, said that timely assessment and review of a given project would help dispose of the rest of the work on that project.

Farmers should be informed about the balanced use of bio-and chemical fertiliser to increase the fertility of the soil at a time when wide discrepancy between population growth and agricultural out put is posing a challenge, he said adding there should be work on soil management.

Chief of the division Sadananda Jaisi said that farmers should be encouraged to use bio-fertiliser as unbalanced use of fertilisers has led to diminished fertility of the soil. The function was presided over by director-general of the Department of Agriculture Asheshwar Jha.

Meanwhile in Bhadrapur, a follow-up seminar on employment promotion training organised by the Employment Promotion Committee of His Majesty’s Government opened here on Thursday.

National Planning Commission (NPC) member Jagdish Chandra Pokharel inaugurated the training .

The seminar is expected to make an evaluation of the implementation aspect of various employment generation trainings conducted by different government authorities, assess the practical implications of the training to employment, workout ways for the coordination of training and employment and to identify the means and ways of relating the training to the job market and the development of the district.

Twenty four persons took part in the day-long seminar presided over by DDC chairman Arjun Rai.