Mizoram Planning Minister Lalsawta today said that reforms in land utilisation and agriculture would bring in development in the state.
Addressing the State Level Consultative Seminar on Land Reforms and Change of Agriculture Production System in Aizawl, Lalsawta said a new land law was needed to ensure that anyone having large tracts of unutilised land would have to pay heavily.
He also said that jhumming or the slash and burn way of shifting cultivation had been practised in the state for more than a hundred years and found to be unprofitable.
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"We need a better system that would change the economy from the subsistence level to the market economy," he said, adding that the New Economic Development Policy (NEDP) formulated by the state government and to be implemented from the current fiscal would help in transforming the state economy.
The seminar was attended by farmers from across the state as it was jointly organised by the state government and the All Mizoram Farmers Union (AMFU).
