“Unnat Sheti Samruddha Shetkari Abhiyan”—A Big Success

Agriculture Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Chandrakant Dada Patil informed that special campaign has been run through the state named as “Unnat Sheti Samruddha Shetkari” for two weeks. 19 Lakhs farmers have participated in this campaign and 36000 programmes were arranged through this platform. Mr Patil also informed that 12000 agricultural workshops are being organised and 3 Lakhs farmers are being educated through this campaign.

Agrowon has published detailed news regarding this campaign. This innovative campaign was organised between 25th May to 28th June 2019. Its main aim was to notify farmers about different schemes and to assure effective implementation of different schemes related to the agricultural sector. It's another intent was to introduce farmers with advanced agricultural technologies and government schemes which are beneficial to the farmers. During this campaign, farmers were trained about the precautions needed while purchasing seeds and fertilizers, seed processing, cultivation schemes of the Government, sprinkler systems, health conditions of the land, etc. Different agricultural authorities and experts guided the farmers through workshops organised during this campaign.  

Agriculture Department of the state has focused on increasing the yield, use of technologies and organisation of workshops to empower the farmers in the state. These workshops are termed as “Sheti-Shala”. 12000 workshops are being organised in the state through “Unnat Sheti Samruddha Shetkari Abhiyan”. Through these workshops, farmers will be made aware of different technologies and innovations in the agricultural sector. These workshops are intended to increase the yield for lentil, jawar, sugar cane, gram seed, rice, soybean and cotton crops. 

Agriculture Minister of Maharashtra, Honourable Shri Chandrakant Dada Patil has undertaken different innovative initiatives in this field. Mr Patil has always insisted on the empowerment of farmers through different beneficial schemes, use of technology, increasing the yield, inclusion of women from farmer families in their family businesses, appropriate irrigation schemes, good price to the agricultural produce, etc. 

Organization of training programmes, workshops, and seminars for the agricultural sector also highlights the collaborative efforts taken by different stakeholders in this field and empowerment of the farmers. This attempt is highly appreciable since it applies the research, innovations, and technologies to the actual fieldwork. The knowledgeable inputs will help to empower the farmers in the state and to boost the economy accordingly. The huge response shown by the farmers to this Abhiyan underlines the success of this campaign and it will be a motivating factor for the State Government for the future approaches in this domain. 

Since Honourable Shri Chandrakant Dada Patil has his own roots in the rural area, he totally understands the problems faced by the farmers in Maharashtra. He has always tried to resolve different problems faced by farmers in Maharashtra through different schemes such as loan waiver, and other monetary benefits in case of natural calamities, crop insurance, etc. “Unnat Sheti Samrudha Shetkari Abhiyan” is an appreciable innovation undertaken by the Agriculture Department of Maharashtra and Agriculture Minister, Honourable Mr Chandrakant Dada Patil is highly credible for it.  We convey our best wishes to this innovative campaign and wish that these types of programmes will be undertaken further in the future.