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Agricultural development programme for Karur

KARUR: National Agricultural Development Programme (NADP) is to be implemented in Karur district from the current year.

Proposals worth Rs. 107 crore have been forwarded for implementation in the Centrally-sponsored four-year programme that would see coordinated efforts involving several governmental agencies and departments in a bid to make the life of farmers better.

The NADP aims at increasing the funding of development programmes being implemented by the Agriculture and allied departments, empowering fully the states to prepare action plans for the betterment of farmers and agriculture in every district, preparing plans in accordance and in tune with the local ecology, meteorology and technology.

Also the programme would seek to accord priority for increasing area under local and indigenous crops, prepare plans to reduce the gap in raising staple crops and to elevate farm and allied activities to make them viable for farmers to enjoy better living conditions among other things.

Elected local body members and chiefs would be involved in drafting and discussing the action plan for each district. In fact, for discussing the proposals, a special meeting of the elected local body chiefs was convened here recently and the panchayat chiefs gave valuable inputs in tinkering with the plan to suit the local needs.

Besides Agriculture, departments such as Agriculture Engineering, Agriculture Marketing, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Sericulture, Seed Certification, Public Works Department’s various wings have been involved in drafting the proposals under the NADP.

The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), which is the coordinating agency for implementing the project has allotted one scientist for each implementing district.

While Agriculture Department has forwarded proposals worth Rs. 8.89 crore, Horticulture has come up with plans worth Rs. 1.62 crore, Agri Marketing Rs. 1.05 crore, Agri Engineering Rs. 8.34 crore, Animal Husbandry Rs. 24.86 crore, Sericulture Rs. 62 lakh, and Seed Certification has put forward proposals worth Rs. 6 lakh.

The River Conservancy Division of the Public Works Department has submitted plans estimated to cost Rs. 26.04 crore while the department’s Amaravathy Basin Division and Non-System Division have prepared projects estimated to cost Rs. 30 crore and Rs. 5.01 crore respectively. In all the departments have together sent draft plans worth Rs. 107 crore.

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