Tamil Nadu Govt steps to convert barren lands into arable land to increase cultivated area: Chief Secretary's speech through video

The Forecast 3 years ago Tamil Nadu

To convert the increasing barren lands into arable lands in Tamil Nadu, to increase the cultivated area, to increase the yield by adopting modern industrial techniques in various agricultural and agricultural crops, thereby increasing the income of the farmers of Tamil Nadu, to include various schemes related to the welfare of the farmers, and to successfully submit the separate financial report for agriculture for the last two years.

The government of Tamil Nadu is implementing welfare schemes.
It is well known that it has become very challenging for farmers to achieve high yields and sell their produce at profitable prices in the multi-risk agriculture industry. Tamil Nadu Agriculture is involved in coordinating all the farmer welfare activities implemented by various departments of the Tamil Nadu government, visiting all the villages, meeting the farmers, examining the crops they are cultivating and giving recommendations accordingly. The farmer's welfare department is playing a very important role.

For this, the government has recently recruited 361 agriculture officers, 162 horticulture officers, and 27 assistant directors of horticulture. Thus, although training is provided to the newly hired officers regarding the activities of the department at various levels, considering the importance of the department officers in carrying the government schemes to the farmers, the department officers should work with full commitment for the sole purpose of farmers' development.
In order to provide all the necessary assistance to the farmers without any hindrance, the Chief Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Government, Veirayanbu, has given a speech through a video to encourage more than 18 thousand officers working at various levels in all the districts.

The key features of the Chief Secretary's address to the Agriculture Department officers are as follows:

* The importance of agriculture in improving human life; technological efforts to increase productivity in less space; measures to increase fruit and vegetable production to ensure nutritional security

* Understanding the significance of horticultural crop cultivation in Tamil Nadu, as there is a lot of room for it.To increase the area under cultivation, to overcome the shortage of farm labour, the importance of mechanisation of agriculture,

*Encouraging diversification of crops instead of cultivating a single crop or a single field, solving the problems faced by farmers through computer technologies like artificial intelligence,

The needs are: the need to sell the products produced by the farmers at a higher price; the need to do mixed farming including livestock among the farmers; the need to carry out organic farming on the available lands; and the need to provide market facilities for the products produced through organic farming. The officers working in the agriculture sector are familiar with the new techniques. He advised that it should be carried among the farmers.

Advice for Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Scientists

Different crops and varieties should be developed to adapt to climate change. The university said it aims to develop light-weight machines for palm tree climbing and short palm tree varieties to quickly transfer new technologies to farmers, the university said. There should be a close link between the department and the government.

The All-Village Integrated Agricultural Development Program of Kartika, newly introduced in the last year, is being implemented in coordination with the All-Village Anna Revival Program. Through this, he asked the departmental officers to work tirelessly to achieve overall development and self-sufficiency in all the villages.

Finally, every officer working in the agricultural department should consider himself a monitoring officer and examine his work. Act with excellence. Not only that, The chief secretary of the government, who has a lot of experience in encouraging the future of the youth through platform speeches and books, said that through his speech, he expressed the hope that the manpower in the agriculture-farmer welfare sector will become stronger.