Haryana Government has approved various schemes to the tune of about ` 320 crore under National Agricultural Development Plan 2017-18.
Under this, various activities would be carried out including promoting sugarcane farming, crop diversification, subsidy on distribution of certified seeds of paddy, bajra, wheat and barley, and direct seeding rice. These schemes were approved in the meeting of State level Sanctioning Committee of National Agricultural Development Plan held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary, DS Dhesi on Monday.
During the meeting, schemes to the tune of `33.82 crore was approved for subsidy on distribution of certified seeds of paddy, bajra, wheat and barley for agricultural production growth under National Agricultural Development Plan. Similarly, `14.74 crore were approved for promoting sugarcane farming, about `10 crore for direct seeding of rice, `49 crore for marine white shrimp farming, `12.58 crore crop diversification and `five crore for green fodder development programme.
Apart from this, `27.23 crore was approved for Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department, `1.50 crore for Science and Technology Department, about `20 crore for Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar and `181 crore for lala lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.
Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning Departments, P.Raghavendra Rao, Additional CS, Development and Panchayats Department, Navraj Sandhu, Additional CS, Forests and Wild life Department, Sunil Kumar Gulati among others attended the meeting.