SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 28 (KNS): With an outlay of Rs. 5013 crores over the subsequent 5 years below the newly authorised Holistic Improvement of Agriculture and Allied Sectors (HDAS) scheme, a brand new section of farmer prosperity and rural livelihood safety throughout Jammu and Kashmir will grow to be a actuality.
The scheme will remodel the agriculture financial system of J&Okay placing it on a brand new trajectory of progress, doubling the output of the sectors, boosting exports and making the sectors sustainable & commercially viable.
The distinctive factor about 29 initiatives below the scheme will not be solely that they’ve been ready by a few of the best brains within the nation but in addition the truth that their formulation was undertaken in a consultative mode – guaranteeing that the opinion of all stakeholders together with our farmers is taken onboard.
Notably, in July this yr the UT administration constituted an Apex Committee for holistic growth of Agriculture and Allied Sectors for which main luminaries like Dr Mangala Rai, Former DG ICAR, as its Chairman and Dr Ashok Dalwai, CEO NRAA other than different well-known figures within the discipline of Agriculture, Planning, Statistics & Administration.
The committee working in a mission mode got here with a complete plan within the type of 29 initiatives protecting all of the sectors throughout the ambit of APD in a report time of 5 months, an official stated.
These twenty-nine initiatives will virtually double the output of the sectors, boosting exports and making the sectors sustainable & commercially viable, an official stated and added that these features shall be equitable, reaching the final individual within the pyramid and ecologically sustainable by environment friendly use of bio-resources for meals, feed & trade.
As per the officers, the agricultural output which stands at Rs 37600 crores shall enhance by over Rs 28142 crores to achieve greater than Rs 65700 crores per yr, with a resultant increment in sectoral progress charge to 11%. The interventions shall create employment alternatives for over 2.8 lakh youth and set up round 19,000 enterprises. Aside from this, greater than 2.5 lakh individuals shall be expert in numerous agri-enterprises starting from seed manufacturing, precision farming of greens, bee-rearing, cocoon manufacturing, mushroom farming, built-in & natural agriculture, high-density fruit farming to processing, dairying, sheep & poultry farming in addition to fodder manufacturing.
Within the subsequent 5 years the UT shall have a motivated workforce with agri-entrepreneurial abilities in a commercially viable and ecologically sustainable agri-ecosystem. The initiatives authorised within the agriculture sector are Improvement of Seed and Seed Multiplication chain in PPP mode, Promotion of Area of interest crops in UT of J&Okay, Promotion of Greens/unique greens below open & hi-tech protected cultivation, Strengthening Agri-Advertising and marketing System in UT of J&Okay, Promotion of medicinal/fragrant crops on industrial foundation.
Furthermore, the Promotion of Apiculture, Technological interventions to strengthen Sericulture in J&Okay, Promotion of Nutri cereals (Millets), Farm mechanization and automation, Promotion of mushroom cultivation, Promotion of Oilseeds, Formulation of 300 FPOs, Adoption & promotion of built-in farming system (IFS)/Built-in Livelihood methods (ILS) in UT of J&Okay, Promotion of economic floriculture in UT of J&Okay and Improvement of rain fed areas of J&Okay
The initiatives below agriculture sector additionally embrace alternate Agriculture System for sustainability, Sensor primarily based good Agriculture, Minimizing pesticide use in Agriculture, J&Okay soil & land useful resource info system and Modern approaches in agriculture extension. (KNS)
