Rs 3703.17
Lakh approved for the year 2020-21 under NMSA, NeGP-A
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Jammu: Principal
Secretary Agriculture Production Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary today
chaired meeting of State Level Executive Committee of National Mission for
Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) and State Empowered Committee meeting of
National e-Governance Program in Agriculture (NeGP-A) for approving the action
plans for the schemes.
Speaking on the occasion, the
Principal Secretary urged to adopt integrated mode of farming for sustainable
growth in agriculture and allied sectors.
He impressed upon officers to
implement the scheme so that its benefit percolates to the ground and impact is
registered making agriculture more productive, sustainable, besides
remunerative and climate resilient.
Navin Choudhary stressed upon
to conserve natural resources through appropriate soil and moisture
conservation measures and to adopt comprehensive soil health management.
He also stressed for optimal
utilization of water resources through efficient water management to expand
coverage for achieving 'more crop per drop' and to develop capacity of farmers
and stakeholders.
The Principal Secretary highlighted
the role of integrated farming in order to ensure food security and minimizing
risks from crop failure through supplementary-cum- residual production systems.
He also impressed that the
project should be implemented in such a way that it would make current service
delivery mechanisms more efficient, transparent and accountable which will
result in facilitation of farmers to have easy accessibility to these services
through multiple service delivery channels.
On the occasion, Director
Agriculture Kashmir, Altaf Aijaz Andrabi, who is also Mission Director NMSA and
(NeGP-A), gave a detailed presentation of the respective e-schemes and
highlighted the impact of these schemes for promotion of location specific
improved agronomic practices.
While deliberating on the key
objectives of NeGP-A scheme, the Mission Director informed that the Department
is putting forward for bringing farmer centricity and service orientation to
the programs by enhancing its reach and impact of extension services, improving
access of farmers to information a services throughout crop cycle, enhancing a
integrating the existing ICT initiatives of Centre, and States.
He also informed that WhatsApp
groups have been formed at the Panchayat level and latest technical know-how is
disseminated among the farmers on real time basis and providing diagnostic
redressal to the concerns of the farming community.
He said that NMSA has been
formulated for enhancing agricultural productivity especially in rain-fed areas
focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management
and synergizing resource conservation.
During the meeting the total
plan of Rs 3703.17 lakh was approved for the year 2020-21 under NMSA and
NeGP-A.
The meeting was attended by
Director Agriculture Jammu, Director Horticulture Jammu, Director Command Area
Development Jammu, Director Planning APD, Director Research SKUAST, and
Director Animal Husbandry Jammu.
Director Agriculture Kashmir,
Director Horticulture Kashmir, Director Animal Husbandry Kashmir, Director
Finance APD and Joint Director Agriculture Extension Kashmir participating in
the meeting via video conference.
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