To promote organic farming in the State, the cooperative department of Uttarakhand would organise fairs in all the districts of the State. The fairs would be held every year in every district of Uttarakhand. As of now the fair is organised only at Dehradun.
This decision was taken in a meeting of the department chaired by the State Minister of higher education, cooperatives and dairy development Dhan Singh Rawat at Vidhan Sabha on Monday.
He said that the department is planning to organise one fair each in every district of the state from this year. He said that in these fairs, special focus would be made to promote organic farming.
These fairs would be of one week duration and the Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) of the cooperative department would also be included in the fairs. The minister said that the primary objective of these fairs is to double the income of the farmers. He added that the fair of Dehradun would be organised on a mega scale. The minister claimed that lakhs of farmers would participate in these fairs.
Adding further he said that the department has decided that one stall of every state would be set up in these fairs. The minister directed the officials of the department to make all the preparations for these fairs.
In the meeting the chairman of the Uttarakhand cooperative bank Dan Singh Rawat, chairman of the state cooperative federation Brij Bhushan Gairola, registrar cooperatives B M Mishra, Managing Director of cooperative bank Deepak Kumar, additional registrar Cooperatives Anand Shukla, Ira Upreti and others.