Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 14: Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh today said the initiatives taken in the agriculture sector would ensure that adequate technological and other interventions increase the productivity and augment the economic profile of the farming community.
The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking after inaugurating a programme organized by Sericulture Development Department (SDD) in collaboration with Central Silk Board, Govt of India, in connection with launch of scheduled Caste (SC) sub-plan for sericulture farmers.
The SC beneficiaries, on this occasion, interacted with the Union Minister for Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani and Union Minister of State for Textiles through video conferencing. Sericulture framers and dignitaries from different states like Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were also present during the interaction.
MLA, Chenani Dina Nath Bhagat, Financial Commissioner, Agriculture Production Department, Pramod Kumar Jain, Director Agriculture, Jammu A K Malhotra, Director Sericulture, Joint Director Central Silk Board Jammu and Additional Director, Sericulture Jammu along with scientists of Central Silk Board and other officers from Sericulture Development Department, Jammu were present on the occasion.
Expressing gratitude to the Union Govt especially the Central Silk Board for selecting J&K as one of the State for SC sericulture farmer centric project implementation, the Deputy Chief Minister said that Central Silk Board and Sericulture Dev Department of J&K should continue with such interventions as sericulture has huge potential for employment generation in rural areas of the state.
“Farming community need to take the aid of the modern technology in order to make the farming and related practices simpler thereby increasing their productivity”, maintained the Deputy Chief Minister. He said that Prime Minister has also undertaken the initiatives to introduce newer technologies in the agriculture sector, which would ensure that the agricultural produce gets increased and thereby resulting in uplift of the economic activities of the farming community.
Speaking on the occasion, MLA, Chenani Dina Nath Bhagat emphasized that the department should implement this project in a way so that weaker sections of the society could be benefited and improvement could be ensured in their socio-economic life.
Financial Commissioner, Agriculture Production Department, Pramod Kumar Jain while speaking on the occasion sericulture has huge scope for employment generation provided all the schemes and projects are implemented in scientifically as chain of management activities are involved for the successful cocoon crop.
Director Agriculture, Jammu, Director and Addl. Director Sericulture, Joint Director Central silk Board Jammu, Scientist from CSB also expressed their views during the occasion.
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