United Nations will present Rs 31.404 crore
monetary help of
United Nations and the Department of Agriculture
MoU signed between
Raipur, 29 September 2023
A particular program can be run to encourage the manufacturing of wheat and rice in Balrampur and Dantewada districts of Chhattisgarh. An help of Rs 31.404 crore can be offered by the United Nations for this programme. In this program which can be run with 100% monetary help, together with the manufacturing of rice and wheat, digital agriculture will even be inspired. This program can be operated for five years.
An MoU was signed at present between the Agriculture Department of the State Government and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan positioned in Nava Raipur. In this system organized below the chairmanship of Agriculture Production Commissioner Dr. Kamalpreet Singh, Director Agriculture Mrs. Chandan Sanjay Tripathi and United Nations consultant Mr. Takayuki Hajiwara signed the MoU on behalf of the state authorities. In this system, Project Director of Food and Agriculture Organization Mr. Prashant Kumar Swain, Joint Secretary Agriculture Mr. Okay.C. Paikra, Additional Director Agriculture Shri C.B. Lodhekar, Shri R. l. Dhurandhar, Joint Director Agriculture Mr. Kapildev Deepak, Mr. Amit Singh together with officers and staff had been current.
Agriculture Production Commissioner Dr. Kamalpreet Singh highlighted the immense prospects of export of non-basmati paddy from the state, espresso and tea manufacturing, offering crop loans at zero p.c curiosity to the farmers of the state for agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry and pisciculture and rather than regular paddy. The consultant of the United Nations was knowledgeable about offering extra enter help quantity to the farmers rising fragrant paddy and different crops.
Agriculture Production Commissioner Shri Singh expressed the state authorities’s efforts to advertise natural farming by distributing vermi compost ready to the farmers by the Millet Mission and Godhan Nyay Yojana, which is run to extend the manufacturing and space of millet crops like Kodo-Kutki, Ragi within the state. Informed about progressive efforts. Besides giving details about selling small scale industries by Mahatma Gandhi Rural Industrial Park (RIPA) to strengthen the agricultural financial system of the state, the tasks of Food and Agriculture Organization had been described as catalysts to satisfy the efforts being made by the state authorities.
