DDC Rajouri presented Block level Awards to farmers*

Rajouri: District Development Commissioner, Rajouri, Mohammad Aijaz Asad today presented block level best farmer awards to the farmers of district Rajouri in a function organized by agriculture department Rajouri.

The awards were given under the ATMA scheme for the year 2018-19. The awards were given in the field of vegetable cultivation, mushroom cultivation, oilseed, cereal and in beekeeping.

A total of 09 awards were given and each award includes a cash prize of 10,000. A special award under the field spices (Garlic) was also presented with a cash prize of 10,000.

speaking on the occasion, District development Commissioner Rajouri urged the farmers to avail the favors of numerous farmers welfare programs like a kissan credit card, PM-KISAN, Sub Mission on Agriculture Technology and other state-sponsored schemes.DDC urged them on the reformed agriculture operations to boost their income.

The farmers who attended the function were made aware of the usefulness of organic farming and advised them to evade the adoption of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides and growth regulators for further productions.

The function was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Rajouri, Sher Singh, Chief Agriculture Officer, M Y Choudhary,Chief planning officer, Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Mohd Ashraf and other offices of the agriculture department.