Patna: After good roads, improving law and order, education and health services, Bihar is turning its attention to promoting organic farming in the state to usher in a new Green Revolution in agriculture.

In a bid to spread awareness about benefits of organic farming among farmers, hundreds of national and international organic farming scientists and experts are expected to gather in the Bihar capital for a two-day conference beginning Wednesday.

R.K. Sohane, director of Bihar Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute here has informed that this conference of national and international organic farming scientists and experts would boost the government's plans of attracting farmers to adopt organic farming.

Over 200 participants including organic farming experts and scientists, food processing industry representatives, buyers and government officials will interact at the conference where experts and scientists would explain how organic farming could be popularised and promoted in Bihar, K.M Singh of ICAR-RCER added.

The state government has already decided to promote organic farming in at least one village of the state's 37 districts.

Bihar government has launched an organic farming promotion programme early this year for the cultivation of organic crops in all the districts. The government has decided to develop organic grams (organic villages) for which a sum of Rs.255 crore has been sanctioned for five years, an official of the agriculture department informed.

In April this year, Bihar becomes the first state in the country to constitute an agriculture cabinet with an aim to improve the agrarian sector and address the plight of the farmers. This move is seen as not only big news for the millions of farmers of Bihar, but the beginning of turnaround for the agriculture sector.

The state government admits on its official website that agriculture is the key to the overall development of the state economy.