ITANAGAR, Jun 27: Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein while attending a pre-budget consultative meeting with agriculture & allied departments has exhorted the officers of the departments of Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary and Fishery to devise pragmatic schemes that will help in achieving the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Urging the departments to make prospective plans both for long term (five years) and short term (one year) to boost agriculture & allied sectors, he asked them to emphasize on local spice production, functionalization of auction centres to boost marketing of local spice productions, encourage citronella cultivation for oil production and revamp old irrigation channels. Urging the departments to gear up and perform, Dy CM informed that Rs 1700 crore allocated to various departments in the last year’s budget remained unspent against which Utilization Certificates could not be submitted by these departments.
Participating in the meeting, Home Minister Bamang Felix stressed on boosting marketing of the agriculture & horticulture produce, adding that there is need to assist farmers by building proper marketing facilities where they can sell their produce at remunerative prices.
Minister of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary & Dairy Development and Fishery, Tage Taki said that he is working with a single mission to achieve the target of doubling the farmers’ income by 2022. “To double their income, we need to uplift Dairy Farming, Piggery, Fishery and Backyard poultry which will give the farmers easy and quick income”, he said, beside urging to keep sufficient fund for purchase of feeds, which is the main hurdle in dairy farming, piggery, poultry and fishery. He also emphasized on cultivation of maize, millets and vegetables and on community fencing of agricultural lands and added that the traditional system of providing tractors through CM’s Farm Mechanization Scheme will be updated with more modern machineries.
Among others, Commissioner (Agriculture Production) A K Singh, Secretary (AHV & Dairy Development) Bidol Tayeng, Secretary (Agriculture & Horticulture) Mimum Tayeng, Secretary (Fishery) Geyum Padu, Secretary (Planning) Himanshu Gupta, GM NABARD Dr Gopa Kumaran Nair, Directors of Agriculture, Horticulture, AHV & Dairy Development, Fishery, Soil Conservation (RWD) and Horticulture Research Development Centre also gave their inputs in the meeting. DCM PR

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