The State Government has sanctioned 12 new projects of worth Rs 7,295.25 lakh under the Rastriya Krushi Vikash Yojana (RKVY).
The projects were sanctioned in the State Level Sanctioning Committee meeting held on digital mode under the chairmanship of outgoing Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy on Thursday wherein Principal Secretary Agriculture and Farmers empowerment Saurabh Garg outlined the issues for discussion.
Chief Secretary Tripathy directed to specify deliverables with timelines against each project and monitor those closely. He further directed to do due diligence at different levels of the project implementation and bring out necessary modifications as per ground level feed back in the light of the changing need of the farmers.
Tripathy also directed to identify the projects having potential for promotion of agri-entrepreneurship from among the ongoing projects. The project implementing departments and agencies were asked to expedite implementation of the projects through ground level monitoring.
Principal Secretary Garg outlined their technical, financial and administrative aspects for discussion. Garg also focussed on the necessity of the projects in the light of their direct benefit to the farmers. A total number of 12 projects worth Rs 7,295.25 lakh were presented by the project proponents.Tripathy accorded approval to the projects which would be financed both by the Central and State Government on 60:40 sharing basis. The major projects approved included promotion of pheromone traps for managing all army worm and insects on crops, e-paste surveillance and management, promotion of soil less nursery in tribal regions, promotion of high value crops, supply of kitchen garden kits, support to WSHGs for mushroom cultivation, planting material support for flower cultivation, renovation and modernisation of old dairy plants, promotion of nutria garden in tribal area, constriction of seed storage godown at nine places in different districts, supply of mango grafts for backyard plantation, and, supply of mix fruit plants for backyard plantation.
The committee also considered and approved the Annual Action Plan of Rs 9,136 lakh under different sub-schemes like bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (Rs 8,884 lakh), reclamation of problematic soils (Rs 250 lakh) and crop diversification programme ( Rs 1.960 lakh).