Director Agriculture Jammu reviews the performance of the department in districts

JAMMU, DECEMBER 08: Director of Agriculture Production & Farmer Welfare Jammu, Inder Jeet chaired a meeting of the officers to review the implementation of various Farmers’ welfare schemes and programmes in the districts.

The physical and financial achievements/ expenditure under various centrally sponsored schemes and CAPEX/REVEX Budget 2020-21 were discussed threadbare in the meeting.

Director Agriculture impressed upon the officers to create mass awareness regarding various ongoing farmers’ welfare schemes at the grassroots level. He took a detailed review of status and progress of KCC, PM-KISAN, Soil Health Cards, Formation of FPOs, Formulation of new projects, Mushroom, Apiculture, Organic Clusters, Farm Machinery, Farmers Whatapp groups, and Integrated farming System models (IFS).

The Director further impressed upon the officers to upload beneficiary related data under different schemes on relevant DBT portals and instructed for geo-tagging of all works.

Stress was also laid on updating of POS machines to 3.1 version, QR code installation, and liquidation of all fertilizer stocks in POS machines.

Feedback regarding stocking and off-take of Rabi 2020-21 seeds was also taken in the meeting.

Director stressed expediting the utilization of funds to ensure 100% achievement under the Centrally Sponsored Farmers Welfare Programmes and CAPEX Budget 2020-21. He asked officers for strict adherence to quality parameters and Codal formalities while executing the infrastructure development works as per DPRs.  Inder Jeet further impressed upon the officers to identify and resolve the bottlenecks for successful implementation of the farmer welfare schemes.

The Director also took the latest update regarding the progress of Paddy Procurement.

The Chief Agriculture Officers were asked to submit a weekly progress report.