We have taken the lead in development in the field of agriculture. We are working towards implementing the idea of Integrated Farming. There are many challenges regarding cooperatives in the state and by facing those challenges we have done better in various sectors,” said Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Cooperation Minister, Badal as the chief guest in the Sahakar Se ProsperitySamridhi-cum-Declaration-cum-Training Program organised in the Co-Operative Auditorium at Pashupalan Bhawan, here on Thursday.
Initiating the distribution of working capital of Rs 10 crore among 500 lamps/packs, Badal said that proper utilization of working capital should be ensured and its monitoring should be ensured at the district level.
The Agriculture Minister said that during the Corona epidemic, cooperative brothers have procured more paddy than the target at the minimum support price in the field of paddy production, regardless of their lives. Against 60 lakh metric tonnes, 62.85 lakh metric tonnes of paddy has been procured. Also, we have set a target of 80 lakh metric tonnes for the next financial year.
Badal informed that the Agriculture Department is working on a plan to build 200 yards for paddy stock in the State and also wrote to the concerned department for land for at least 100 rice mills in the State. We are taking the rice mill project as a pilot project and 5000 metric ton capacity cold storage and 30 metric ton capacity cold rooms are being set up. He said that the department is going to develop the basic infrastructure in the field of agriculture.
Departmental Secretary Abu Baqr Siddiqui said that NCDC has done the work of honouring the cooperative society for the first time. Implementation of various schemes of the government through cooperatives gives better results.
In the programme, the entry number of the monthly magazine "Sahakar Samvad" to be published by the Office of the Registrar, Cooperation Societies and the Jharkhand Cooperative Manual was launched by the Agriculture Minister.
The workshop was mainly attended by the Regional Director of NCDC Siddharth Kumar, Registrar Cooperative Mrityunjay Kumar Barnwal, Director Animal Husbandry Shashi Prakash Jha, along with many officials and members of the cooperativesociety.