Ensure 100% registration of farmers: CM

LUCKNOW : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday asked the agriculture department to ensure registration of all farmers of the state to enable them get benefit of welfare scheme in a transparent manner.

Launching the third edition of the farmers’ millennium schools here, he said farmers must be encouraged to register themselves with the agriculture department so that subsidy in seeds, fertilisers etc could be transferred to their bank accounts directly.

He said holding classes for 10 million farmers under the ‘millennium school’ programme had been useful in educating farmers about the latest farm technologies to double their income. Farmers will be given live demos on progressive farming this time, he said.

He said the crop residues would now become an asset and not a liability to farmers with the government planning to produce bio-fuel from it. “In the first phase, the plants to concert cop residues into bio fuel are being set up one each in Sitapur and Gorakhpur,” he said.

The CM said the state had made a quantum jump in the matter of food production but much was to be done to make farmers prosperous. He also enumerated various welfare schemes launched by his government.

THE CM SAID THE STATE HAD MADE A QUANTUM JUMP IN THE MATTER OF FOOD PRODUCTION