One day awareness programme for women farmers held at Rehmbal

UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 27: An awareness programme for women  farmers  was today organized here at Panchayat Ghar Upper Rehambal, zone Jib. The awareness programme was attended by Chief Agriculture Officer,  S C Sharma, SMS DL Arun Samyal, AEO Jib, Yashpal Gupta along with PRI Members and representatives of NGO.

As many as 50 women farmers participated in the event.  The  scope  and  prospects  regarding  agricultural  activities, different  schemes/ programmes being  implemented  by  the  department  for the welfare of the farming community were  discussed  in  detail. The participants were encouraged to form  Self  Help  groups  for  availing incentives  under  different  schemes  viz ODOP(One  District  One Product), Custom  Hiring  Centres  and  Farm  Machinery  Banks with the available incentives of 35%, 40%, and 80% respectively.

During the programme, the farmers were advised for adoption  of  crop  diversification/ integrated  farming  system  model  approach for  ensuring  optimal/efficient  utilization  of farm resources and agriculture  inputs  for  reducing  the  cost  of  cultivation  and  searching  for  better  marketing avenues  for  sale  of  products  &  by-products by following good agricultural practices (GAP).

In  order  to  supplement  farmers  income  through  non-farm  activity like Mushroom cultivation detailed  understanding  was  given  with  reference  to  its  cultivation  &  scope  of  its  marketing  &  financial  benefit  .

On  spot  instructions  were  issued  to  field  staff  for  registering  interested  farm  women/ farmers. Further,   the  farmers  were informed that  Mushroom  Development  Scheme  is  being  run  by  the  department  for  providing  technical  knowhow  to  them  for  its  successful  cultivation  at  the  individual  level.

Responding to the farmers’ complaint regarding the monkey menace, they were asked to go for   alternative lemon grass crop cultivation.  They  were  made  aware  of  its  cultivation aspects , output product  i.e. essential  oil &  scope  of  its  marketing  and  financial  benefit  over  traditional  crops. For  this  also  farmers  were  asked  to  approach  AEO Jib for   its  cultivation.