Tuesday, 01 August 2023 | PNS | NAINITAL
In latest Uttarakhand news, the State agriculture minister Ganesh Joshi
assured the farmers in the mountainous parts of the State who have incurred loss due to the rain-triggered natural calamity that the State government is committed to compensate them adequately. “I am now touring the mountainous regions of the State to assess the magnitude of the crop damage and to help them come out of the crisis by providing them with adequate amount of compensation,” the minister said in Nainital.
He further said that the State government is initiating efforts to reduce the volume of the barren lands in the hill areas and to get these lands used for coarse grain cultivation. “To achieve this goal, the government is working in the direction of land consolidation,” Joshi said, adding that the government is boosting organic and traditional farming while ensuring that they get the appropriate prices for their produce.
He said that more than 4.5 lakh people are associated with 61,000 self-help groups. “We expect that the women working with the self-help groups will go to the farmers’ houses and buy coarse grains from them for selling them in the markets. If this happens the economic status of these women will be immensely enhanced,” he said, adding that the government has made a provision of Rs 73 crore to implement its Millet Mission
. “We have increased the minimum support price of mandua to promote its production,” he said.
The minister further informed that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is most likely to inaugurate the Sainya Dham, the War Memorial, now under construction, in December this year.
