JK News Today
Jammu, April 24: Agriculture production department today kick started the four-month long orientation programme for the farmers of the UT under Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP), simultaneously across all the districts of the UT.
The orientation programme was held across 264 venues engaging close to 14000 farmers across the UT on the first day of the programme.
An official of agricultural department said that the programme will be held on first three days of every week.
“The mammoth exercise beginning from today will be completed in four months which will cover all the panchayats of all the districts and will culminate on August 31, 2023. During the Orientation programme an exhaustive district specific calendar has been issued by the Government,” he said.
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.
“Using audio visual aids in describing the schemes had a lasting and much more engaging, engrossing effect on the farmers,” the official said.
Besides this question answer session after each screening session of videos was held to clear the doubt of farmers. The farmers were also provided with pamphlets of all the schemes in the three languages (Hindi, Urdu and English) which also contained the information about the contact details of all the department of the UT.
Farmers were also informed about the mode of application under these schemes using the KISAN SATHI- the IT Dashboard of the schemes developed by APD.
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.
