More than 24,000 farmers attended the first three-day maiden ‘Kisan Sampark Abhiyan’ organised at 264 venues across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
A first of its kind massive farmer’s orientation exercise is being undertaken by Agriculture Production Department (APD) and planned under the recently launched Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP) in the Union Territory under the guidance and supervision of Additional Chief Secretary (APD), Atal Dulloo whereby ambitious targets of reaching out to each and every farmer in each and every Panchayat has been envisaged under the ‘Kisan Sampark Abhiyan’ in next four months.
The exercise commenced from April 24 and will conclude August 31.
Sharing details, the ACS said that the orientation programme is being organised simultaneously across all the districts of the UT and the programme has been designed to be conducted on the first three days of every week.
“An exhaustive District specific Calendar has been issued by the Government. The Resource persons for the orientations are Officers and Officials drawn from the Agriculture, Animal/Sheep Husbandry, Horticulture, Sericulture and Fisheries Departments, who were trained beforehand during the 641 training sessions which were held across all districts during the months of January to April,” he said.
Dulloo added that an innovative tool of describing the different schemes and programmes using short films has been put in place and a total of 49 videos of schemes under HADP and other centrally sponsored schemes will be shown to the farmers across the venues in Jammu and Kashmir.
The farmers, he said, 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 departments under the agriculture production department of the Union Territory.
He disclosed that the 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 besides, they were also apprised about the ‘Daksh Kisan’- a Learning Management System (LMS) for skill development of the farmers.
A first of its kind in the country, ‘Daksh Kisan’, has been developed by Agriculture Production Department, where 118 skilling courses as per the agro-climatic zones of the J&K Union Territory are available for free to the farmers.
Again, a simple scan of the QR code at the back of the pamphlet takes the farmer to ‘Daksh Kisan’ Portal where he can register for free and undertake any skilling course of liking, he stated.
“The successful farmers who clear the course shall be provided Certificates from SKUAST-Jammu and Kashmir,” Dulloo said.
