Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government is
planning to bring in a provision that will allow the state to
give less incentives to industries set up on fertile land.
As the area under agriculture is declining due to the
twin effects of increase in population and rampant
industrialisation, the provision will help protect the state's
fertile farm land, state Agriculture Minister Trivendra Singh
Rawat told reporters here.
For the purpose, the agriculture department is also
considering developing Special Agriculture Zones (SAZs) and
make it part of the new state agriculture policy, he said.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to develop three
blocks of the state--- Raipur in Dehradun district, Pokhara
in Pauri district and Kotabagh in Nainital district--as the
model farming areas where all agro-based activities from
farming to animal husbandry would be carried out, the minister
said.
Apart from this, the government has brought in a new
scheme of voluntary land consolidation in the villages where
the fields of farmers are scattered, he said.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 22:09