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Hello Jammu News at 8:01:00 PM 0

JAMMU, JUNE 20: The progressive farmers of Jammu division today participated in an interactive session with Prime Minister, Narendra Modi through video-conferencing. The facility was arranged by the Department of Agriculture, Jammu at the Conference Hall of Krishi Bhawan here.
The farmers from 600 KVKs,  Common Service Centres (CSCs), NIC Centres and Directorates of Agriculture across the country participated in the programme and shared their experiences with the Prime Minister.
While addressing the farmers through video-conferencing, the Prime Minister said that cutting input cost, fair price for crops, preventing the produce from rottening and creating alternate sources of income are the four key areas for raising farm income.
During the interactive session, 24 farmers hailing from nine states of the country narrated their success stories and spoke about how they got benefitted from different government schemes on crop insurance, soil health, micro-irrigation, electronic national agriculture market and farm mechanization.
Director Agriculture, Jammu H.K Razdan also interacted with the farmers after the session. Joint Director of Agriculture Extension R.L Bhagat, I/C Deputy Director Central Jagmohan Bhat, I/C Chief Agriculture Officer, Jammu Anil Arora, Agriculture Economist K.K Sharma, Agriculture Information Officer J.C Raina, SDAO Marh R.S Jamwal, SDAO RS Pura Roshan Lal besides other officers and field functionaries participated.
Speaking on the occasion, Director Agriculture said that the use of Soil Health Cards helps in reducing the consumption of chemical fertilizers by 20% along with narrowing the wide NPK ratio to the normally recommended level of 4:2:1. The implementation of various farmers’ welfare schemes including PMKSY, PMFBY, KCC, Parmparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) will help to modernize the agriculture in our state as well.
S. Tajinder Singh, Choudhary Dev Raj, Kulbhushan Khajuria, Rajinder Sharma, Jagdev Singh, Chamail Singh, Bansi Lal, Jaswant Singh and Biru Ram were among the progressive farmers who shared their achievements and success stories. The farmers also spoke about various problems and difficulties of the farm sector including insufficient availability of agriculture implements and machinery, bore-wells, rejuvenation of ponds, border firing, monkey manace, and improvement in the irrigation water facilities.
Razdan advised the farmers to grow low water requiring plants, crops, pulses and to conserve the soil and moisture in the un-irrigated and kandi belt areas of Jammu. He directed the field functionaries to register the applications for issuance of agriculture machinery and equipments on first-come-first-serve basis. The farmers on the occasion got an opportunity to learn from the success stories of the progressive farmers from the other states.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:28:00 PM 0

Says such efforts essential to plug communication gaps in information dispensation to farmers

JAMMU, APRIL 25: Minister for Agriculture Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura released the 'Farmers Friendly Handbook' for schemes and programmes at a function organised by Agriculture Department here today.
Vice Chairman Kisan Advisory Board Daljit Singh Chib, VC SKUAST Jammu Dr P.K Sharma, Secretary Agriculture Showkat Ahmad Beigh, Director Agriculture HK Razdan, Director Command Area Development, President Dogri Sanstha Jammu Prof. Lalit Mangotra, HoD Urdu, Jammu Dr Liaqat Zafri, Dr JavedRahi and Professor Nirmal Vinod besides other officers from allied departments and progressive farmers were present on the occasion.
The Handbook has been released in two languages - Urdu and Dogri for better dissemination of agro information to farmers.
Pertinently, the publication of booklet of programmes and schemes in native languages will facilitate handy information and awareness among farmers about the guidelines, norms and pattern of assistance under Centrally Sponsored Flagship Schemes namely Pradhan Mantri FasalBima Yojana (PMFBY), Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) and Soil Health Cards Scheme (SHC) etc.
The handbook will also provide information regarding marketing schemes, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Cultivation of Fruits, Vegetables, Mushrooms, Flowers and bee-keeping to increase farmer’s income, Seed Production Technology, Agriculture Mechanisation, Agriculture Extension and Training, Agriculture Credit, Plant Protection etc.                                                                                                   
Hanjura commending the department on launching these handbooks in Dogri and Urdu said that this initiative has been long awaited and comes at an opportune time to give impetus to efforts towards doubling the farmers’ income by 2022.
“Reaching out to farmers in their respective mother/regional languages shall have far reaching implications and shall benefit the farmers by increasing their understanding of various schemes of central and state government for welfare of farming community of our state” the Minister said. Understanding of the schemes both by the farmers and implementing agencies shall also help in maintaining check and balances, he added.
The Minister congratulated the team responsible for successfully executing this task and asked the department to organize mega awareness camps and ensure that the books and the relevant information reach every Panchayat and every farmer.
Vice Chairman Kisan Advisory Board, appreciating this initiative, said that these Handbooks in native languages will increase the reach of information dispensation besides lead to wider penetration of scheme details at ground level. He also appreciated Minister for his visionary approach towards development of this sector in the state.
VC SKUAST-J said that these Handbooks will help farmers better understand and take benefits from various centrally and state sponsored schemes launched for their development. He stressed for putting special efforts towards further developing irrigation facilities, especially in far off areas besides extensive marketing efforts for achieving the goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
The progressive farmers also shared their experiences and gave valuable suggestions for further development of farmers at ground level. They expressed appreciation for releasing the farmers' Handbook in local languages.

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