To make agricultural and allied sectors economically viable for the farmers, Punjab Government is planning to create value chains for agriculture and horticulture sectors to double the farmers’ income by introducing new technologies.
“The State Government is committed to remove bottlenecks and find ways forward to address challenges faced by the agri sector to accomplish the farmer’s income enhancing target,” said the state Food Processing and Horticulture Minister Fauja Singh Sarari in the presence of luminaries of this vast field at Agriculture Infrastructure Fund Related Awareness, Issues and Challenges Conference organized by Department of Horticulture at CII.
Highlighting various steps taken by the government to remove the logjam in these sectors, the Minister informed that the process to chalk out comprehensive plan is underway as these areas have the immense potential to harness the demands of foreign shores. “We are creating infrastructure in these particular areas where the produce is coming and world class air connectivity would prove fruitful to realize this idea,” he said.
Dwelling further, Sarari also asked the authorities to explore possibilities to tap the energy of existing Cooperative Societies in Punjab. Notably, the Horticulture Department is the nodal agency to implement the scheme in the State.
The conference, which aimed at creating awareness about the provisions of the scheme and have a dialogue among the stakeholders on how Punjab’s farming as well as Agro Processing community can work together and collaborate to make Punjab’s Agri sector both remunerative as well as competitive on the global map, has many informative sessions.