Farmer interest groups will be formed as part of a special bonus scheme to be started for encouraging cultivation of Manduwa (finger millet) in the State. Farmers registered with such groups will receive Rs200 bonus per quintal of Manduwa, said chief minister Harish Rawat in a meeting with Agriculture department officials. He said that the State Government is attempting to boost the cultivation of finger millet in the State especially for re-linking people to agriculture in the mountainous areas of Uttarakhand.
He said that instructions have already been issued to Health, Police, RCDS and some other departments to submit details of their demand so as to ascertain the finger millet requirement of the particular department.