SRINAGAR: To monitor the ongoing Kisan Sampark Abhiyan – farmers’ orientation program – under the Holistic Agriculture Development programme, being held from 24th April to 31st of August 2023, the Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal on Wednesday visited Tujar Sopore and Trehgam Kupwara and held meeting with the farmers of different areas and took feedback from them regarding various departmental activities.
While addressing Kissan Sampark abhiyan at these areas, the Director Agriculture stressed upon the concerned officers to give the program vide publicity so that mass participation of the farming community can be assured. He asked the officers to aware the farmers about modern tools and techniques that have been incorporated in HADP to overcome the prevailing constraints and use different extension methods to motivate the farming community in adoption of proposed interventions in the approved projects.
The Director Agriculture assured all the possible help from the department for the successful implementation of the program in all the districts, to uplift the livelihood of the farming community. He marked the role of PRIs in the successful implementation of different programmes at grass root level. He asked the officer to work in close coordination with the representatives of Panchayat Raj Institutions so that the said targets under different schemes could be achieved in a comprehensive manner.
Director Agriculture was accompanied by Joint Director Agriculture Inputs Mohammed Younis Chowdhury, SDAO Trehgam Kupwara and other senior officers of the department.