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5000 Agri -clinics to be set up annually: Nitish
Government has announced a proposal to set up 5000 Agri-clinics and Agri-business centres annually which would give a comprehensive package of services to farmers besides educating them on the ill effects of excessive use of chemical pesticides.
Government has announced a proposal to set up 5000 Agri-clinics and Agri-business centres annually which would give a comprehensive package of services to farmers besides educating them on the ill effects of excessive use of chemical pesticides.
“ Under the proposed scheme, an agriculture graduate can
establish an Agri-clinic or business centre at a unit cost of
Rs five lakhs or a group of a maximum five persons could set up a poly-clinic for an amount of upto Rs 50 lakhs,”
Agriculture Minister Nitish Kumar said in New Delhi on Friday.
“Government would give a 25 per cent subsidy and arrange 65 per cent loan preferably through NABARD for this, while traders would give a 10 per cent margin money,” he said at the 37th annual session of Pesticides Association of India (PAI).
The scheme, which also provides five per cent extra assistance to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, would soon be placed before the cabinet and was likely to be made part of the budgetary provisions. These clinics, he said, would provide a whole range of services to the farmers like Soil Testing, Seeds, Pesticides and Fertilisers. It will also cover Fisheries, Foodgrains Storage, Aquaculture and Equipment Manufacturing. Cautioning against excessive use of chemical pesticides, he said the industry should concentrate on exports. “I am happy that domestic use of chemical pesticides has declined but export has gone up. Export should be increased further,” he said.
Bureau Report
“Government would give a 25 per cent subsidy and arrange 65 per cent loan preferably through NABARD for this, while traders would give a 10 per cent margin money,” he said at the 37th annual session of Pesticides Association of India (PAI).
The scheme, which also provides five per cent extra assistance to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, would soon be placed before the cabinet and was likely to be made part of the budgetary provisions. These clinics, he said, would provide a whole range of services to the farmers like Soil Testing, Seeds, Pesticides and Fertilisers. It will also cover Fisheries, Foodgrains Storage, Aquaculture and Equipment Manufacturing. Cautioning against excessive use of chemical pesticides, he said the industry should concentrate on exports. “I am happy that domestic use of chemical pesticides has declined but export has gone up. Export should be increased further,” he said.
Bureau Report