Srinagar, Apr 24: The Agriculture Production Department (APD) on Monday kick-started a four-month-long orientation programme for the farmers under Holistic Agriculture Development Program (HADP), simultaneously across all the districts of Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory.
Financial Commissioner Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo said the orientation programme was held across 264 venues engaging close to 14,000 farmers across the UT on the first day. The programme shall be held on the first three days of every week.
“The mammoth exercise beginning from today shall be completed in four months which will cover all the Panchayats of all the districts and shall culminate on August 31, 2023,” he said.
During the orientation program, an exhaustive district-specific calendar has been issued by the government. “An innovative tool of describing the schemes using short films has been put in place. A total of 49 videos of schemes under HADP and other centrally-sponsored schemes were shown across the venues in J&K,” he said.
Using audio-visual aids in describing the schemes had a lasting and much more engaging, engrossing effect on the farmers. Besides this, a question-answer session after each screening session of videos was held to clear the doubt of farmers.
Officials informed that the farmers were also provided with pamphlets of all the schemes in the three languages (English, Urdu and Hindi) which also contained information about the contact details of all the departments of the UT.
The farmers were also informed about the mode of the application under these schemes using the KISAN SATHI- the IT Dashboard of the schemes developed by the Agriculture Production Department.
For skill development of the farmers, the farmers were also apprised about the DAKSH KISAN- the Learning management system developed by APD, where 118 skilling courses as per the agro-climatic zones of the UT are available for free to the farmers.
