Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo, today convened a meeting on strategizing and planning formation of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) under Holistic Agricultural development Programme (HADP) in J&K.
A comprehensive power point presentation was presented by Rajeshwari, S M (Agribusiness expert) in which detailed deliberations were held regarding formation of about 300 FPOs as envisioned in HADP.
Atal Dulloo termed this project as being a heart and soul of HADP which is directly related with farmers income.
He also informed about formation of Resource Persons at block level, Institutional framework for these FPOs for training purposes and a window for FPOs in UT dashboard of HADP with involvement of Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj to make this project successful at the grassroot level.
Registrar Cooperative J&K, Director General Sheep Husbandry department, Director Animal Husbandry Jammu/Kashmir, Director Horticulture Jammu /Kashmir, Director Horticulture (Planning & marketing) J&K, MD JKHPMC, J&K, Director Fisheries J&K, Director Sheep Husbandry Jammu, Director Agriculture Jammu/Kashmir and Technical Officers were present in the meeting both physically and virtually.
