Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday directed that each of the Agriculture Science Centre in the State should adopt 10 villages to provide training to youths and farmers on agriculture, horticulture and fisheries.
Chairing a meeting of the Agriculture Task Force Permanent Work Group at his official residence here, the Chief Minister said that the Agriculture Science Centres should provide training to maximum number of farmers and youth.
He said that 50 lakh smart phones are to be distributed under SKY scheme to families which should have an application related to information on agriculture.
An initiative should be taken to get school children attracted to agriculture profession by disseminating information on benefits of agriculture profession, Singh said.
The farmers could be educated on agriculture through Gram Sabhas in Panchayats,he said.
Singh said that the educated youth through the Agriculture Science Centres can be trained to offer them work under MGNREGS.
On the occasion, Vice-Chairman of State Planning Commission Sunil Kumar, unofficial member Professor Dinesh Marothiya, Chairmen of Agriculture Task Force's permanent groups- SK Patil (Vice-Chancellor Indira Gandhi Agriculture University Raipur, Dr PK Joshi (Director South Asia International Food Policy Research Institute New Delhi), Professor Sukhpal Singh (IIM Ahmedabad), Dr VP Singh Senior Advisor For Policy and Development (ICRF South Asia New Delhi), Dr Vishwa Vallabh (Professor and Coordinator CRM School of Business and Human Resources XlRI Jamshedpur), Professor Brij Gopal Coordinator Centre for Inland Waters in South Asia Jaipur, and Chief Minister's Special Secretary Mukesh Bansal were present.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh Government will establish an Incubator for promotion of livelihood activities in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), agriculture and allied sectors with market linkage in Rajnandgaon district, officials informed.
Notably, Chhattisgarh has started adapting the best policy practices from the fastest growing entrepreneurial eco-systems, like in Singapore and the Silicon Valley, to accelerate entrepreneurial growth to provide a major push to the 'Startup Chhattisgarh' programme, officials informed.
It is now aggressively inviting new entrepreneurs, investors and startup leaders from across the globe to become part of the startup ecosystem.
The Government also has plans to establish state-of-the-art innovation/research infrastructure at the universities and colleges in emerging fields such as biotechnology and Internet of Things (IoT), Agriculture and Food Processing so that innovators can build new products.
It also has plans to establish district specific knowledge banks to bring all the entrepreneurial opportunities in food processing, manufacturing and value addition etc under one roof.