Excelsior Correspondent
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.
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.
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