Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 6: Vice Chairman, JAKFED Munish Sharma called on Union Minister of State in PMO with Independent Charge for development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh here, today and discussed various issues related to youth who want to take-up farming and the problems being faced by the farmers of the J&K State.
Vice Chairman, apprised Dr Jitendra Singh that majority of youth expressed that their future is not safe in agriculture, the Government needs to come up with schemes so that youth are given a license to market and supply various agricultural inputs to farmers. Youth should be taught about organic farming as it doesn’t require heavy investments and it is more profitable farming. Both the Government and Corporate Sector need to increase the number of scholarships for agricultural students to enhance research and development. This will also help them become better professionals and improve their earning capacities.
Showing concern for the welfare of farmers, Vice Chairman briefed Dr Singh that to boost farmers and agriculture of the State, JAKFED is planning to come up with Kissan Seva Kendras outlet across the various locations of Jammu & Kashmir wherein various products related to farmers and agriculture like hybrid seeds, organic fertilizers and other agricultural equipment will be sold under one roof, which will provide a major boost to the farmers. The objective of opening Kissan Seva Kendras is to provide all agricultural inputs under one centre as farmers and villagers are suffering a lot to buy these agricultural products, he added.
Vice Chairman informed that these centres will be developed only for the welfare and development of farmers so that they could get fertilizers seeds and organic urea of high quality at reasonable rates. “We are focussing on the goals set by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s vision to double the income of farmers by 2022.
During the meeting Vice Chairman, also stressed on the need to popularize the promotion of various local food crops of J&K at international market so that farmers could get good return. There is a need to explore markets in the country and abroad for State’s famous agricultural crops like Saffron, Basmati Rice, Rajmash, Pomegranate Seeds (Anardana), Apples, Morel Mushroom (Gucchi), Apricot, Red Rice, Walnut, Spices and various agricultural produce.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that all these issues will be redressed at an earliest. Terming Kissan Seva Kendra a great revival plan by Vice Chairman. To boost on the farming in J&K, Dr. Jitendra Singh lauded the Seva Kendra plan of Vice Chairman and assured that the Ministry of DoNER would always be ready to support the farming community with modern technology in order to increase the agricultural productivity.
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