Chief Minister Raghubar Das reassured farmers and allied services professionals including fisheries, dairy and horticulture on Saturday to be rest assured that the government would leave no stone unturned for betterment of farming fraternity of the State and in doubling their income by 2022. He has also asked the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Co-Operatives department officials to take at least five farmers each from all 24 districts on a training tour to Israel to get acquainted with emerging technologies in agriculture and to understand how a country surrounded with sands all around succeeded in taking agriculture and animal husbandry to another level.
Addressing Kisan Mela-cum-Krishi Jagriti Abhiyan-2017 at Jawahar lal Nehru Stadium on Saturday, the CM said that the farmers on training to Israel will learn how to farm on barren land. He also announced providing smart phones to 5 ARYA/ Krishak Mitra/ Matshya Mitra/Bagwani Mitra from each block and motorbikes to 3 mitras each doing diligent works in rural areas.
The CM also said that all 39 lakh farmers in State will be provided Soil health card in 3 years and they will be using fertilizers according to the demand of their soil. “Chemical fertilizers decrease the production capacity of the fields and hence, the government promotes bio-fertilizers in the fields. Moreover, the government has targeted to give cows to 50,000 women on 90 per cent subsidy. At the same time, government is also working on making compost from garbage,” said the CM.
Development Commissioner Amit Khare said on the occasion that the government had done tremendous effort to invest in agriculture and results had been started appearing. “Jharkhand was the only State which started Single Window system for agriculture, apart from dedicated agriculture budget which was taken to a whopping over Rs 5,500 Crores in financial year 2016-17. It has also happened only during last two years that agriculture has been treated as a separate industry. I am sure that the efforts which the government has been taking will make Jharkhand the first State to see its farmers’ income doubling by 2022,” said Khare.
Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Co-Operatives department Minister Randhir Singh, Department Secretary Pooja Singhal and Agriculture Director Rajiv Kumar, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Kanke MlA Jeetu Charan Ram, Ranchi MP Ramtahal Chowdhary, Birsa Agriculture University Vice Chancellor Parvinder Kaushal and officials of the department were present on the occasion.