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Bihar’s Agriculture Minister Ram Kripal Yadav connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) asserted that nary husbandman successful the State would beryllium deprived of benefits nether authorities cultivation schemes for not being registered nether the husbandman registry.
“We volition not permission immoderate husbandman retired of the ambit of the husbandman registry, and nary 1 volition beryllium deprived of the benefits of Central Government schemes. My section is wholly taking attraction of the farmers’ interest,” Mr. Yadav said portion addressing the media successful Patna.
Under the ‘AgriStack’ initiative, the section has truthful acold prepared unsocial husbandman IDs for 45 lakh people—about 52% of the target. Farmers tin use online oregon get ID cards done Vasudha Kendras successful their villages. The registry aims to make a unsocial ID for each husbandman to streamline entree to Central and State schemes.
Outlining his imaginativeness of “Samridh Kisan, Viksit Bihar” (prosperous farmers, developed Bihar), Mr. Yadav said helium and his elder officials would undertake territory visits aft the existent league of the Bihar Legislative Assembly to code farmers’ grievances.
Noting that implicit 90% of Bihar’s farmers are tiny and marginal, helium said the Nitish Kumar government, with the enactment of Narendra Modi-led Central Government, is committed to providing a timely proviso of fertilisers, seeds, tools, insecticide and marketplace access.
He asserted that determination would not beryllium immoderate shortage of ‘fertiliser’ successful the State. Warning against blackmarketing of fertilisers, the Minister said flying squads had been formed astatine the office level. As of February 17, 104 FIRs had been lodged and licences of 419 fertiliser shops cancelled.
With a presumption to mitigating the dependence connected imports of pulses and oilseed, the State Government has acceptable a people of achieving self-reliance successful the accumulation of the 2 important items, Mr. Yadav said and added that the acreage of some pulses and oilseeds volition beryllium doubled successful the adjacent 5 years, with harvest readying mapped district-wise.
Citing the interaction of successive Agriculture Roadmaps—the 4th successful cognition since October 2023—he said the productivity of atom accrued to 29.70 quintal per hectare successful 2024-25 from 12.37 quintal per hectare successful 2007-08, with accumulation expanding to 99.34 lakh tonnes from 42.66 lakh tonnes.
The productivity of wheat has accrued to 33.44 quintal per hectare betwixt 2017-18 and 2024-25, whereas it was 18.29 quintal per hectare betwixt 2003-04 and 2007-08. The accumulation has accrued to 78.27 lakh tonnes from 37.97 lakh tonnes.
Similarly, the productivity of maize has accrued to 69.13 quintal per hectare betwixt 2017-18 and 2024-25, whereas it was 25.04 quintal per hectare betwixt 2003-04 and 2007-08. The accumulation has accrued to 66.03 lakh tonnes from 15.97 lakh tonnes.
