In a unique initiative of its kind, the owners of forest rights letters in Korea district will bring about cultivation of ‘green feed’ for cattle on a total of 1,000 acres of land during the coming monsoon season.
This is apart from 33 lakh saplings being envisaged to be planted in the district with the help of Forest, Horticulture and Rural Development Department, an official statement here said.
This information was provided by Korea District Collector Avinash Champawat to Chief Minister Raman Singh during his video conference with the collectors and the superintendent of police of all the districts in the State.
Applauding the move by Korea district in its initiative to bring about cultivation of green feed in such a huge tract of land, Singh asked other districts to prepare a similar action plan for its implementation.
Champawat informed in the meeting that a total of 584 forest rights certificates had been issued to the villages for carrying out work for community purposes.
A total of 250 tracts of land each of 4 acres having the forest rights certificates would carry out cultivation of green feed approved under an integrated action plan and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) so that be green feed could be made available to the cattle for the entire year, he said.
Moreover, a total of 5.80 lakh quintal of paddy was purchased in the district on support price during 2012-13 with the payment of Rs 74.19 crore made to the farmers, Champawat said.
He said that bonus totalling Rs 15.65 crore had been distributed to 9,294 farmers at the rate of Rs 270 per quintal. Similarly, the district administration has ensured availability of 18,433 quintals of seeds against the demand of 14,641 seeds out of which 5,117 quintals of seeds had been stored with the co-operative committees, Champawat said.
Moreover, levelling of land of all 8,000 farmers possessing forest rights letters for the Kharif season is already underway with the supply of a bag each of paddy seeds and fertilizer free of cost , he said.
Moreover, the district collector informed the Chief Minister that against the demand of 8,547 quintals of fertilisers of all varieties 5,278 quintals had been made available to the co-operative committees for storages, Champawat said.
He said that a total of 12,600 applications had been redressed against 12,620 received during the Gram Nagar Suraj Abhiyan.
Superintendent of Police R S Nayak informed the CM that the law and order situation in normal in the district and all the prominent persons in the district have been provided security as per their demand.