SRINAGAR, AUGUST
11: Director Agriculture Kashmir
Altaf Aijaz Andrabi today said that financial empowerment of farmers is a must
to attract young innovative minds towards the Agriculture sector.
This was stated by
the Director in a meeting he chaired here to review the overall implementation
of various centrally-sponsored schemes and flagship programmes under
agriculture sector in Kashmir division.
The Director listed
a series of measures to be taken by the department for efficient implementation
of different projects. He stressed for the prompt intervention by the
department for improvement in the work culture. He asked the officers to
prepare fortnightly and monthly plans for achieving set targets to ensure
efficient services to the farmers.
Calling for close
monitoring of schemes especially flagship programmes, Andrabi said increasing
the frequency of awareness deliberations would yield positive results in the
farming sector.
Describing
entrepreneurship in the farming sector as the need of the hour, Director
Agriculture asked the officers to make all possible efforts to attract young
and innovative minds towards the farming sector.
A number of
measures were discussed in the meeting including punctuality in the field
offices, Adhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) monitoring,
holding awareness programmes, distribution of soil health cards, distribution
of agriculture inputs, review of seed village programmes, speedy expenditure of
available funds only through DBT mode, close monitoring of different field
crops, climate change resilient programme, and organic farming.
The meeting was attended by Joint Director Agriculture
Extension Choudhary Mohhamad Iqbal, Joint Director Inputs Deepak
Kumar Kuchroo, Joint Director Engineering Javed Iqbal Lone, Project Coordinator
Mushroom Abhinash Chander Peer, all Chief Agriculture Officers and other
concerned.
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