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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Jun, 2019
The Odisha government will formulate a new agriculture policy, which
will focus on the income enhancement of farmers, said an official on
Tuesday.
Agriculture Secretary Saurabh Garg said the state
government will replace Agriculture Policy 2013 with a new one that
would stress on the income enhancement of farmers.
He said that
the Agriculture Department had sought suggestions from other departments
concerned to formulate the new policy. The departments were asked to
give their inputs within two weeks.
Garg said the vision of the
draft policy was to harness Odisha's agriculture potential in a
sustainable manner and raise its farmers' income continuously while
ensuring nutritional security.
The draft policy is being worked
out through a wide process of consultation with experts, universities,
civil society bodies and farmers' groups.
The policy recommends
sector-wise interventions for overcoming the difficulties faced in last
years and maximising of the outcomes.
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi on Tuesday chaired a high-level intersectoral meeting for the purpose at the Secretariat.
Padhi
directed officials to create an ecosystem for flourishing of farmer
producer groups and mobilising private investment in the sector.
Development
Commissioner Asit Kumar Tripathy said the policy should be oriented
towards crop diversification, value addition and market linkages.
Agriculture Production Commissioner Gagan Kumar Dhal advised developing
calamity resilient seeds and agricultural practices.
Public investment in agriculture had reached Rs 17,000 crore in 2018-19, said an official.
The
Odisha government has taken pioneering steps like rolling out an
exclusive budget for agriculture and forming a separate Agri-Cabinet. As
a result, the state has become a surplus agri producer -- producing 117
lakh MT of food grain in 2016-17 with 25 lakh MT rice surplus.
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