Srinagar, May 11: Over 80,000 farmers have attended the orientation program under Kisan Sampark Abhiyan during the three rounds of the orientation program, which started from April 24.
Officials said that enthusiastic farmers turned up in hordes across all the districts in Jammu & Kashmir and nearly 800 Panchayats across all districts have been covered till date under the Abhiyan.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo said the first-of-its-kind massive farmer’s orientation exercise is being undertaken whereby ambitious targets of reaching out to farmers in every Panchayat has been envisaged under Kisan Sampark Abhiyan in the next four months.
The exercise commenced on April 24 and would conclude August 31 2023 has been planned under the recently launched Holistic Agriculture Development Program (HADP).
“The program has been designed to be conducted on the first three days of every week. An exhaustive District specific calendar has been issued by the govt. The resource persons for the orientations are officers and officials drawn from the Agriculture, Animal/Sheep Husbandry, Horticulture, Sericulture and Fisheries Departments, who were trained beforehand during the 641 training sessions which were held across all districts during the months of January to April,” he said.
Dulloo said an innovative tool of describing the different schemes/ programs using short films has been put in place. “A total of 49 videos of schemes under HADP and other Centrally Sponsored Schemes will be shown to the farmers across the venues in J&K,” he said.
During the programs, farmers were also apprised about the DAKSH KISAN- a Learning Management System (LMS) for skill development of farmers.
A first of its kind in the country, DAKSH KISAN, has been developed by APD, where 118 skilling courses as per the agro-climatic zones of the J&K UT are available for free to the farmers.
Again, a simple scan of the QR code at the back of pamphlet takes the farmer to DAKSH KISAN Portal where he can register for free and undertake any skilling course of his/her liking.
The video lectures under the LMS are available in Kashmiri, Urdu, Dogri and Hindi and Textual material is available in Hindi Urdu and English.
Besides specialized modules on business development and financial management have also been included to ensure that the farmers are not merely trained but become skilful entrepreneurs. The successful farmers who clear the course shall be provided Certificates from SKUAST-J/K.
