West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner, Ram Singh and the Civil SDO, Dadenggre Sub-Division, Jagdish Chelani interacted with Producers’ Groups and Bakdil NGO members in a program organized by FOCUS under Farmers’ Collectivization for Up-scaling Production and Marketing System at Asimgre village under Dadenggre block yesterday.
During the program, the Deputy Commissioner said that FOCUS will uplift the livelihood of the rural people by providing the necessary support to the producers at the grass-root level. He said education is the stepping stone in uplifting one’s economic life and urged the youth of the area give priority to education.
Stressing on the need to minimise import of pigs, cows, etc. from the neighbouring states, he urged the people of the area to take up the live-stock farming in large scale and also suggested the pilot project mission in the field.
Chelani highlighted the importance of support fund being given to the producers’ group. He said that 70 per cent to 80 per cent of the rural households basically depend on agriculture and also stressed on the need to go for multi-cropping system to generate more income and uplift the economy of the area.
Secretaries of various IVCS highlighted the problems of their respective areas which included the lack of marketing facilities, in-availability of reasonable prices for the products, lack of processing facilities and value addition, etc. and urge the concerned departments to initiate action to bring sustainable solution to the problems being faced by them.
During the program, the Deputy Commissioner also handed over cheques of seed money to the producers’ groups.
