Ujjain: Take steps to double farmers’ income; APC

Ujjain: Take steps to double farmers’ income; APC

Agriculture production commissioner Prabhanshu Kamal on Friday asked authorities concerned to review measures taken to ensure two-fold increase in farmers’ income.

FPJ News ServiceUpdated: Saturday, June 08, 2019, 12:04 PM IST
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Ujjain: Agriculture production commissioner Prabhanshu Kamal on Friday asked authorities concerned to review measures taken to ensure two-fold increase in farmers’ income. He also asked them to create mass awareness on use of advanced technique and chemical fertilizers so as to reduce investment cost of farming.

He was addressing a divisional level meeting held to review rabi crop for 2018-19 and preparations for kharif crop for 2019-20. It was decided that kharif crop would be sown on 2,160 hectare in Ujjain division.

The APC said that productivity of soyabean would not be beneficial for farmers till the produce per hectare increases to 22 quintal. He said that farmers should be taken into confidence before encouraging them to opt for other crops as an alternative to soyabean.

Kamal further said that it had come to notice that farmers were yet to procure chemical fertilizers in advance. Now, the onus was on district collectors to motivate the farmers so that the targets were met.

He took exception to the lax approach of deputy directors of agriculture towards sampling of non-standard chemical fertilizers, seeds and insecticides. He directed collectors to lodge FIR against companies whose samples are found non-standard.

The APC reviewed overall activities related to agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry and dairy sectors in two sessions.

Prominent among those present in meeting included additional chief secretary Manoj Shrivastava, principal secretaries Ashwini Rai, Ajeet Kesri, secretaries Kavindra Kiyawat, Pramod Gupta, MK Agrawal, Ramesh Bhandari, divisional commissioner Ajeet Kumar, collectors and CEOs of zila panchayats. As Ujjain collector Shashank Mishra was on leave, upper collector Rishav Gupta attended the meeting.

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