NAHARLAGUN, May 9: The Department of Agriculture and Horticulture organized a review meeting of all the state and central funding for the year 2020-21 at the Conference Hall of the Directorate of Agriculture on Monday.
Speaking with the media persons, Minister Agriculture & Allied Tage Taki said that “today we had taken the review of the various centrally and state-sponsored schemes of two departments–agriculture and horticulture. The prime focus of the meeting was to review, how far the department was able to confer its services to the public in the last financial year 2021-22, and what was the performance.
“We also reviewed the performance of last year’s Atma Nirbhar Bagwani Yojana and Atma Nirbhar Krishi Yojana and are going to implement this year’s budget proposal with slight modifications which we had discussed today, ” he added. While appreciating the officials of the departments, Taki said that there is a certain lacuna but overall performance was satisfactory.
When asked about why the farmers are not getting the loan easily in the bank,Taki said that “we are going to interact with the bank officials soon and will discuss the issue with the banks and will request them to provide help to the farmers. “
while speaking on Government’s support to farmers, Minister informed that under Atma Nirbhar Bagwani Yojana and Atma Nirbhar Krishi Yojana government is providing 45% subsidy, 45% Bank loan and 10% is for Farmer’s contribution and to purchase any farming/Agri-Horti related items government provide 90% subsidy.