Addressing the State Level Rabi Workshop Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Minister, Badal said, on Tuesday, that Rs 461 crore has been allocated to all the districts under the Chief Minister’s Drought Relief Scheme. The department is going to give its visiting card to the farmer so that he can be assured that the is with him.
Badal said to make the concept of Smart Village a reality, there is a need to make co-ordination with all the concerned departments. He asked the office bearers to cooperate with those farmers who are not able to reach the Pragya Kendra and are not getting the benefit of the scheme by taking cooperation from Kisan Mitra. Talking about linking the deprived farmers with the schemes, he said that a list of such farmers should be prepared so that the benefits of the schemes could reach them. In 3 years of Government, we are reaching 30 lakh farmer families of the State, this is a big achievement, but the target is to reach 5800000 farmers and ensure the contribution up to 20 per cent in the GDP of the State, he added .
The Minister said that more than five lakh new members have joined the cooperative, monitoring should also be done to see how active the new members are in the cooperative. While addressing 129 new officers, he said that the Government has high hopes from them and the senior officials should share their experience so that they can perform better in the field of agriculture. He said that the commitment in the department should be visible from top to bottom, so that we can play our role honestly in fulfilling the dreams of Birsa farmers.