DC Kishtwar reviews progress under Holistic Agriculture
Development Programme (HADP)
KISHTWAR, FEBRUARY 27: Deputy
Commissioner (DC) Kishtwar, Rajesh Kumar Shavan today convened a meeting to
review the progress achieved under the Holistic Agriculture Development
Programme (HADP) in the district.
Nodal Officer HADP (Chief
Agriculture Officer), Amjad Hussain Malik presented an in-depth report on the
programme’s implementation.
He informed that a total of 19,760
applications seeking schemes benifits have been received across agriculture and
allied sectors. "Of these, 14,484 applications were approved, including
10,616 in Agriculture, 1,052 in Horticulture, 1,870 in Animal Husbandry, 717 in
Sheep Husbandry, 207 in Sericulture, 19 in Fisheries, and 3 in the Marketing
sector, by the District Level Committee (DLC)" he added.
During the review, the DC
emphasized the significance of enhancing registration of eligible persons
across the district. He directed field officers to intensify efforts to
broadbase the scheme outreach.
The review also included an assessment
of the physical and financial progress in key sectors, including Horticulture,
Fisheries, Sheep Husbandry, and Animal Husbandry.
The DC further set new targets for
the stakeholder departments, urging them to ensure continued progress in the
saturation of the program and to achieve top rankings in the Union Territory
(UT).
The DC also set the target of 2,500
registrations on the Daksh Kisan Portal and 8,000 on the Kisan Sathi Portal.
Other targets included addition of more farms to the KKG app.
The review meeting was attended by
CPO Shahnawaz Bali; Chief Horticulture Officer Sajid Mustafa; District Sheep
Husbandary Officer, LDM, DAO, DDM NABARD, Area Marketing Officer and other
officials from the agriculture and allied sectors.