 Jammu, June 17: Principal Secretary, Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal & Sheep Husbandry and Cooperative Departments, Navin Kumar Choudhary today chaired a meeting of Task Force Committee constituted on the Farmers and Fishermen Welfare under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
The Committee decided that 6 Mandies, three each in Kashmir and Jammu divisions, would be established exclusively for medicinal and herbal plants.
The areas identified in Jammu are Batote, Akhnoor and Dayalachak, while in Kashmir these would be set up at Sopore, Batingu and Ganderbal.
The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary, Forest, Environment and Ecology, Sarita Chouhan; Director Agriculture Jammu, Inderjeet; Director Animal Husbandry Jammu Vivek Sharma; Director Horticulture Jammu, Ram Sevak; Director Sheep Husbandry Jammu, Sanjeev Kumar; Director Horticulture, Planning and markeing, Imam Din and other concerned officers.
Chief Executive Officer/ State Medicinal Plant Board, Jehangir, Director Agriculture Kashmir, A A Andrabi; Director Animal Husbandry Kashmir, Purnima Mittal besides other senior officers also attended the meeting through video conferencing.
Principal Secretary asked the concerned authorities to achieve the target of issuance of 100 percent Kissan Credit Card by July 15, 2020.
He directed Agriculture and allied departments to hold camps and awareness programmes in villages to extend helping hand to the farmers for registration under KCC at nearest Bank branch.
He further asked the Agriculture and allied Departments to advertise their schemes/MSP and advisories like Locust threat and mitigation measures by putting hoardings at vantage point & such hoardings, 10 each in Jammu and Kashmir divisions; Pamphlets in Urdu, Hindi and English also be distributed for information of masses.
Director HPM was also asked to give wide publicity through advertisements about amendments in Essential Commodity Act and other farmers’ friendly acts/ordinances promulgated by GOI guaranteeing free intra interstate market.
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