Haryana Government has decided to prepare a database of progressive farmers in all districts of the State.
Besides, 340 villages have been identified for development as horticultural villages to promote horticulture in the State, said Chairman, Haryana State Horticulture Development Agency, Abhilaksh likhi while presiding over one-day State level meeting of Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH).
He said that action plan for these villages has been prepared and the scheme would be implemented in a phased manner.
Under this scheme, 140 clusters with up to five villages have been created. Budget provision of `510 crore has been made for development of infrastructure and provision of facilities such as cold storage, grading, packaging, solar systems, mobile vans and marketing, said he.
likhi directed all the district horticulture officers to interact with farmers in the field and seek their suggestions and information about problems being faced by them, besides offering solutions, so that they may be connected with the horticulture mission.
He said that with a view to achieve the target of doubling the income of farmers as per Vision 2022 of Haryana Government, IT platform should be provided to farmers so that they may have immediate access to information regarding works being undertaken by various institutions in their interests.
Mission Director, Haryana State Horticulture Development Agency, BS Sehrawat said that target had been fixed to achieve production of 150 lakh Metric Tonnes (MT) by covering six lakh hectares.