Minister for Public Relations, Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Narottam Mishra has distributed free agriculture equipments to the farmers at village Garera of district Datia on Thursday. The progamme was organised by Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR).
Several Scientists, Vice Chairman of Text Book Corporation Avdhesh Nayak, Vice President District Panchayat Vijay Yadav and Public Representatives were present.
Mishra said that the farmers' income should increase from milk production beside agriculture, for this there is a need for good bovine animals and availability of green fodder whole year. He further said that the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is working continuously to make agriculture a profitable occupation. Moreover, this scheme of ICAR has been implemented with the same important objective, which is praiseworthy. The institute has recently selected four villages for fodder production and research. Mishra informed that other 40 villages will be registered shortly. He further mentioned that use of agriculture equipments save time and labour.
Mishra stated that the state government is committed for the progress of women. The state government concerned about girls since birth to bringing up and from marriage to family life. Free facilities like uniforms, books, scholarship are being provided to the girls. Beside this marriages are being solemnized under the Kanya Vivah Yojna, free gas connections scheme and ladli laxmi Yojna are being implemented. He distributed free agriculture equipments to women farmers in the programme.
Institute's Director PK Ghosh said that effort is being made to provide green fodder in maximum quantity to the bovine animals throughout the year. There are 261 varieties of green fodder and in this 35 varieties are developed by the institute. Stress has been laid to provide green fodder to the animals of Datia area throughout the year, production of fodder on barren land, medical treatment of animals, distribution of agriculture equipments and to save time.