Agriculture and District In-charge Minister Brijmohan Agrawal has told the officers concerned to ensure stock of sufficient quantity of fertilisers and seeds, so that farmers could get fertilisers and seeds easily.
He said this in view of the scanty rainfall in Surguja, Surajpur and Balrampur-Ramanujganj districts.
The officers should work after making a work plan for sowing paddy that would be cultivated in less time period, besides pulses and oilseeds crops and motivate the farmers for cultivation of short period crops, Agrawal said.
The Minister instructed the officers concerned to give power connection to irrigation pumps and to achieve the target of ‘Shakambhari’ scheme within a month and to repair the damaged transformers within a week.
Agrawal issued these instructions at a meeting of the district and divisional-level officers held here
While reviewing the works of Water Resources Department, the Minister suspended Executive Engineer Naresh Chandra Singh of Ramanujganj with immediate effect for not deciding the agency even after holding the tender on March 22 last.
The District In-charge Minister said that if the cultivation would be good, the condition of the farmers would also be good, as the economy of this region based on agriculture, and for that it was necessary to make fertilizers and seeds available to farmers on time.
While reviewing the schemes of Horticulture Department, the Minister stressed on the need for making litchi the brand of Surguja division.
He instructed the officers concerned to make necessary efforts to promote cultivation of litchi and Nashpati (Pear) in Balrampur-Ramanujganj district and to make the nursery of Horticulture Department convenient to attract the farmers.
Reviewing the various schemes run by the Veterinary Department, Agrawal said that loan should be made available at one per cent interest to the group of 20-20 farmers and added that 50-50 acre land should be earmarked for Gaushala in each development block and instructed to send proposal for Gaushala.
The Minister asked the collectors to make necessary action to mark irrigation projects having the capacity of irrigating 100 hectares of land and to ensure their full utilization.
He said that to take necessary approval of the In-charge Minister before giving final shape to the proposal for rationalization of schools.