A total of 1.10 lakh farmers participated in the orientation programme under the ‘Kisan Sampark Abhiyan’ during the four rounds of the programme in which more than 1000 panchayats were covered across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The programme started from April 24 and in the fourth round, held from May 15 to 17 over 1000 farmers participated in the orientation. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha also participated in the Kisan Sampark Abhiyan and visited Dooru Panchayat in Anantnag District and Hardpanzoo panchayat in District Budgam.
An overwhelming participation of the farmers in both the panchayats bears testimony to the fact that farmers are enthusiastic about the newly launched Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HAPD).
LG asked the educated youth to take advantage of the schemes under HADP as it was a unique initiative first of its kind in the country whereby interventions in all the domains of Agriculture and allied sectors are available.
He expressed confidence that, with implementation of HADP within next five years, J&K UT shall have the distinction of being first to double farm incomes besides having a double-digit growth in the agriculture sector.
Additional Chief Secretary, J&K Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo said that currently the UT engaged in a first of its kind, ground breaking, extensive farmer orientation exercise.
Under the Kisan Sampark Abhiyan, ambitious goals have been set for reaching out to every farmer in every Panchayat of the UT within the next four months.
He said that the exercise started on April 24 and will last until August 31 and has been planned under Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP), a turnaround programme which has been approved in the Agriculture sector by the UT Govt recently.
He added that all of the Districts in the UT are holding the Kisan Sampark Abhiyan -Orientation programme at the same time. The first three days of the week are designated for the program’s operation.
“The government has released a thorough calendar that is specific to each district. Officers and Officials from the Agriculture, Animal/Sheep Husbandry, Horticulture, Sericulture, and Fisheries Departments who were trained in advance during the 641 training sessions that were held throughout all districts from January to April are acting as the resource persons for the farmer’s orientations,” Dulloo stated.
He said that a creative method has been implemented to use short films/videos to describe the various initiatives and projects, adding, “the farmers will be shown a total of 49 short films/videos about HADP and other centrally supported programmes at various locations in J&K.”
“More than 1100 applications have also been received on the Kisan Sathi Portal from farmers across the UT under various schemes, which are under various stages of processing,” he revealed.
