Samba/April 5: Financial Commissioner, Agriculture Production Department, Pramod Jain visited various fields and demonstration sites in the district and interacted with the farmers there.
He was accompanied by Director Agriculture Ashok Kumar Malhotra, Joint Director Agriculture (Inputs), Kulbhushan Sambyal and Chief Agriculture Officer, Samba Iqbal Choudhary and other district & sub-Divisional Level Officers.
Financial Commissioner interacted with the Self Help Group of Women Farmers created under Food Security Mission in village Dhanore of Agriculture Zone Yakh and appreciated the efforts of women farmers for taking keen interest in the agriculture activities and exhorted them to take the benefits of all the government schemes being implemented for improving the economic condition of the farmers .
He also visited the seed village of Wheat(HD-2967)spread over an area of 24 kanals in village Kotli Matkalian Ramgarh laid under PMKSY-ATMA.
Another cluster demonstration of wheat under NFSM, covering 12 farmers at Village Sujana at Rajpura was also inspected by Mr Jain .
While interacting with the officers and field functionaries of the department Mr Jain asked them to be punctual, disciplined and dedicated towards farmers welfare . He laid great stress on timely completion of targets of KCC and Soil Health Cards and stressed on ensuring 100% coverage of farmers under KCC and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). He also asked the officials to work on the concept of Integrated Farming to improve farmers income .
During the interaction, it was decided that the cultivation of Haldi, Pulses and Seasme will be taken on with renewed efforts to help farmers in diversification of their crop.
Financial Commissioner gave a patient hearing to the problems being faced by the officials of the department and assured that measures will be taken to mitigate them.
Speaking on the occasion Director Agriculture Ashok Malhotra informed that requisite steps are afoot to achieve the set targets.
Earlier Chief agriculture officer, Iqbal Choudhary apprised the Financial Commissioner about the activities being carried out by the department. He informed that Samba is the only district of the province that has collected all the basic data information from the farmers and soon this information will be linked with Aadhar cards also for implementation of DBT Scheme.
