The Uttar Pradesh government has mustered its resources to clean the environment, reduce the cost of agriculture, increase agricultural production and the income of farmers.
Making this claim here on Saturday, a government spokesman said that the UP government had launched a concerted campaign in this regard in 11 districts of the state. He said along with the objective of cleaning the river Ganga, organic farming was also being done on both the banks of the Ganga in these 11 districts under the Clean Ganga Mission.
Under this project of the government, 21,142 farmers of 11 districts, located along river Ganga from Bijnor to Ballia, have formed 700 organic clusters in an area of 14,000 hectares. The farmers included in these clusters have grown various crops through organic methods under Kharif 2020 and Rabi 2020-21 seasons.
Kamta, a farmer from Ballia, said that he received all assistance from the government in growing, reaping and packing the organic products and got good prices for the produce.
These products were displayed in the stalls of fairs, exhibitions and seminars organised at various occasions. Farmers have so far sold organic products worth Rs 2.76 crore from this project.
Buoyed by the success of this three-year project in its first year, the state government is going to start its second phase soon. Of the total project cost of Rs 71.40 crore, a sum of Rs 21.05 crore has been spent. It is worth mentioning that the state government, in order to double the income of the farmers, has created many facilities which include impetus to organic farming, switch to profitable crops and diversification in agricultural methods.