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Unit 6: Agriculture in the National Economy

Attempts to improve marketing facilities and marketing linkages. Notes
Attempts to popularise cultivation of Maize, Wheat and Pulses through crop demonstration
and mini-kit programmes.

Development of necessary infrastructure for phyto-sanitary facilities.
Emphasis on the development of rural infrastructure for effective storage facilities and
market infrastructure.

Encouraging farmers for production of organically produced crops through use of organic
manure, etc.

Encouraging rabi (winter) crop cultivation with concentration on rabi maize and winter
vegetables with local improved and high yielding varieties.
Ensuring availability of irrigation facilities from minor irrigation projects, diesel pump-
sets and shallow-tube wells and maximizing utilization of command areas especially in
the winter months for multiple cropping.

Ensuring of adequate and need-based plant protection measures to reduce losses in crop
production.
Extension of subsidies on both organic and inorganic fertilizers and encouraging use of
organic manure. Awareness programmes through farmers’ training and demonstration
on technology for production of vermiculture, etc.

Frequent and widespread publicity campaigns.
Implementation of existing developmental schemes in right earnest and formulation of
schemes for employment generation that would provide ample scope for involvement of
unemployed youth for earning their livelihood.
Implementation of Watershed Development programmes with involvement of watershed
functionaries at the management level.

Increasing the availability of proper agricultural machineries through schemes for
mechanization of agriculture and popularization of power tillers, small tractors, hand
tools and other farm implements.
Introduction of high yielding varieties of seeds and more area coverage under such seeds
with higher yields wherever suitable to be grown with proper package of practices. To
encourage farmers to replace the improved and traditional varieties with low yield records
by HYV seeds including maintenance of germplasms of indigenous local varieties.

Production and multiplication of quality, disease-free certified and true to type seeds
through establishment of seed farms in all the districts of the State to be supplemented
with the setting up of seed certification agency. Introduction of the seed village concept in
the pattern of registered growers for seed potato to be looked into as an alternative.

Raising the level of productivity per unit area through increased and judicial use of
fertilizers.
Strategic interventions through timely delivery of agriculture inputs and efforts to
encourage the farmers to go in for timely sowing of seeds and transplanting of seedling.
Strengthening and modernisation of the Extension wing for the purpose of wide publicity
and improving efficiency in transfer of technology to farmers in aspects of package of
practices, new technique and improved cultivation methods so that the production and
productivity can be increased. Effective mobility of extension personnel through provision
of two-wheelers on loan basis.

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