KATHUA, MAY 22: The 5th Phase of ongoing Farmers' Orientation Programme 'Kisan Sampark Abhiyan' under the Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP) commenced in 9 blocks of the district Kathua witnessing overwhelming response from the farming community.
Farmers of different sectors including Agriculture, horticulture, farming, dairy sector and poultry besides officers from Agriculture and allied department and PRIs attended the programme.
The orientation training cum awareness camps witnessed the presence of a large number of stakeholders, who evinced keen interest in learning about the projects of HADP and other Centrally Sponsored Schemes.
Audiovisuals (AVs) aids were used to disseminate the information about different government sponsored schemes meant for the welfare of the farmers associated with Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Sheep Husbandry, Horticulture, Apiculture, Pisciculture, Sericulture etc.
People were made aware about the schemes in vogue in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Sericulture, Sheep Husbandry ,Fisheries and Horticulture.
The resource persons from Agriculture and allied departments briefed the farmers regarding the schemes.
Thread bare discussions and Question Answer sessions were also held in every panchayat.
Informative booklets in English Urdu and Hindi regarding the schemes of HADP were distributed among the participants.
Moreover, farmers were also made aware about Daksh Kisan (online learning portal for skill development) and Kisan Sathi (IT Dashboard) portals regarding the digitisation of various services/ schemes.
The PRI members present on the occasion lauded the efforts of the stakeholder departments for educating the farmers regarding the Holistic Agriculture Development Plan of their respective panchayats.
