District Collector P Dayanand has directed the officials concerned to get all statistics collected through a physical verification done for the overall sugarcane production in the district in a month-long drive starting from June 1.
Incidentally, Kabirdham district produces large quantity of sugarcane but the actual record of the total amount of produce is not available every season prompting the district administration to now start creating proper records of overall sugarcane production in the district.
The collector has directed to form a total of 67 teams of officials with each having 4 members from the departments of revenue, agriculture and the various co-operative committees.
The team members would visit every village during the drive and collect data on the quantum of sugarcane seeds utilized by the farmers for sowing to maintain a record of the production activity in a region.
After getting the factual figures of the expected sugarcane production in the entire district, the district administration would prepare an action plan for the forthcoming harvest season to supply sugarcane to the Bhomardev co-operative sugar factory established in the co-operatives sector.
Apart from this, the team members would also collect data of the farmers growing sugarcane for the first time in the district.The move would help to motivate more farmers to grow sugarcane in their lands, official sources informed.
The entire exercise of the physical verification drive launched for creating records of sugarcane production in the district would be monitored by the sub divisional officers and the tehsildars in their respective regions.
The collector has directed the team members to notify the farmers growing sugarcane in various regions and hold a meeting with them which must include the presence of
villagers, kotwar, panch, sarpanch and the panchayat secretary of the village.
He also categorically told the managers of the co-operative committees that they would have to maintain law and order particularly in the context of distribution of fertilizers and seeds being provided to the farmers during any agriculture based activity taking place in the district.