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Over 11,000 farmers of Kanniyakumari territory are yet to upload the mandatory accusation for getting the Union Government’s Unique Identification Number, which is indispensable for getting immoderate agri-related assistances, District Collector R. Alagumeena has said.
Addressing the farmers’ grievances redressal gathering held present connected Wednesday, Ms. Alagumeena said farmers of the territory had been advised to registry their names and different allied accusation required for getting the Centre’s Unique Identification Number, which has been made mandatory for availing the payment assistances being fixed to agriculturists by the Central and the State Governments.
The farmers person to upload details astir the grade of their holdings and the country of onshore they had taken connected lease, Aadhaar number, mobile telephone linked to the Aadhar number, slope relationship number, harvest cultivation etc.
Officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Agricultural Marketing, Agro Business and ATMA (Agriculture Technology Management Agency) volition grounds these information. After signaling the details, each husbandman is fixed Unique Identification Number truthful that these agriculturists tin easy avail the benefits of Prime Minister’s Kisan Honorarium Scheme and different payment schemes meant for them.
A full of 1,19,191 farmers from Kanniyakumari territory are present getting the assistance of ₹6,000 a twelvemonth nether the Prime Minister’s kisan honorarium. However, lone 1,07,750 farmers had uploaded the accusation pertaining to the grade of their holdings, harvest cultivated, quantum of harvest etc. portion remaining 11,441 were yet to upload these details.
“Since the farmers tin get successful aboriginal immoderate assistance being extended by the Central and the State Governments lone if they upload the required details, the agriculturists should implicit this process immediately,” Ms. Alagumeena said.
Following entreaty from the agriculturists, the Collector promised that owed steps would beryllium taken instantly to guarantee the merchantability of chemic fertilizers successful the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies from 7 a.m. onwards and asked the Joint Director of Agriculture and the Block Development Officer to procure the paddy harvested successful Shenbagaramanpudur country done the nonstop procurement centre.
Ms. Alagumeena said she would soon seat a associated gathering of National Highways Authority of India, Departments of Water Resources, Agriculture and the farmers to sermon astir the irrigation channels and the h2o bodies damaged successful the roadworthy projects nether execution and restoring it astatine the earliest earlier the commencement of southwest monsoon. She besides asked the Department of Water Resources and the section bodies to guarantee the desilting of each irrigation channels earlier the commencement of the monsoon.
The Collector instructed the Assistant Director of Town Panchayats to instrumentality factual steps to cheque the dumping of discarded successful and adjacent the waterbodies.
