1 / 11

PRESENTATION in National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif, 2006 by Dr.A.C.Sandil, Additional Director of Agriculture

PRESENTATION in National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif, 2006 by Dr.A.C.Sandil, Additional Director of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh. Agro-Climatic Zones. Agro-Climatic Zones. Strategy for Enhancement of Crop Production/ Productivity  Increased area coverage under HYV/ Hybrids.

chul
Download Presentation

PRESENTATION in National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif, 2006 by Dr.A.C.Sandil, Additional Director of Agriculture

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. PRESENTATION in National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif, 2006 by Dr.A.C.Sandil, Additional Director of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh

  2. Agro-Climatic Zones

  3. Agro-Climatic Zones

  4. Strategy for Enhancement of Crop Production/ Productivity  Increased area coverage under HYV/ Hybrids.  Ensuring timely supply of quality inputs.  Enhance productivity in rainfed areas, which is 80%. Focussed extension on transfer of technology through Public Private Partnership/ ATMA. Overall growth in production envisaged more than 4%.  Growth in fruits and vegetables 8-10%.

  5. Availability of Inputs Adequate availability. Tie up made for shortages in zonal conferences. NPK ratio nearly ideal i.e. 5:2:1 Major thrust on IPM, INM and Manuring.

  6. Investment in Agriculture  12% of State Plan. Irrigation:  20% area under irrigation.  90,000 hectare additional area under irrigation in three years.  More emphasis on sprinkler irrigation and Rainwater Harvesting. Power:  State has surplus power.  Adequate availability to farmers.

  7. Crop Diversification 50,000 hectare area to be diversified to vegetables up to Xth Plan. 2,00,000 hectare area under fruits. 15,000 hectare area under spices like ginger, garlic, turmeric. 1,500 hectare area under Medicinal and Herbal Plants.

  8. Agriculture Extension Network 60% posts of extension functionaries vacant. Alternate extension system like; ATMA in 7 Districts formed, SREP prepared. Use of Kisan Call Centres. Greater use of CSS Mass Media Support to Extension. Extension through Women SHG’s, WUA’s, KVS, Farmers Club.

  9. Market Reforms State enacted new act “Himachal Pradesh Agriculture Horticulture Produce Marketing (Development & Regulation Act, 2005)”. New Act is in line with model act and provides for; Private/ Co-op Markets. Direct Marketing. Contract Farming. Rationalisation of Market fee structure.

  10. Risk Management Maize, Rice, Wheat, Barley and Potato covered under NAIS. ICICI Lombard is working on weather insurance for Apple, Tomato and Potato. MIS for Fruits.

  11. Thank You

More Related