Chandigarh, June 8 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday announced that the state government will formulate a policy next year to promote natural and organic farming on land owned by panchayats.

"About 800-acre land that agriculture department owns will also be leased only to farmers committed to practicing natural and organic farming on such land for at least next 10 years," Saini said while addressing an "agriculture workshop" organised in Kurukshetra under the natural farming promotion and cluster formation programme of the agriculture and farmers' welfare department.

On this occasion, Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat, known for promoting natural farming was also present.

The Haryana government launched a natural far...