Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal today conducted an extensive tour of Pulwama and Budgam districts.
During the visit, he also convened two separate review meetings and took stock of the progress under HADP projects, regular CAPEX and CSSs, scope of convergence between MGNREGA and HADP and issues related to procurement of Seed under SVP, organic farming, Natural farming, PM KISAN, PMFBY and Soil Health Card schemes.
During the meeting, different centrally sponsored schemes being implemented by the department including RKVY, MIDH, ATMA, NFSM, PM KISAN, Soil Health Card Scheme, KCC scheme etc were also discussed in detail. The implementation of projects under Holistic Agriculture Development Program (HADP) was discussed threadbare.
In his remarks, the Director said the projects under HADP have been designed in such a way that the small and marginal farmers could establish their own agri-income based units.
