Chandigarh, Sept. 23 -- Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has said that technology that reduces a farmer's input costs, lowers the need for manual labour and increases returns from crops is the real innovation for farmers.

The true success of any technology should be reflected in the farmer's account book. He said that technology is useful for farmers only when it is affordable, easy to use and can also be repaired locally in or around villages.

The Chief Minister was addressing the closing session of the fifth 'Innovative Farmers' Meet' organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Ladwa, Kurukshetra, on Wednesday. On the occasion, he inaugurated and visited an exhibition of agricultural machinery and interacted wit...