Maha State Agri University @ Earn While you Lear – pay students for field work
Agri univs urged to pay students for field work
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday asked agriculture universities in the state to start a unique “earn while you learn” scheme where students would be roped in to carry out ground-level work to create awareness among farmers in the state and paid a stipend for it.
Fadnavis said that as a part of the stipend plan, students could be used to send advisories to farmers, collect data and disseminate information to ensure a better year for the farmers.
“We need to create a mechanism for speedy communication to the farmers so that they can make the right decisions and avoid losses,” said Fadnavis.
He also asked weathermen to increase the accuracy of their predictions to ensure that farmers get right warnings and crop losses are prevented.
Fadnavis, who was attending a meeting to check the preparedness for the upcoming kharif season, said that the India Meteorological Department must work on giving more accurate weather updates as last year a lot of its updates failed, resulting in losses and crop failures for the farmers.
Fadnavis also asked all the banks to ensure that the farmers who had been given loan waiver are extended credit as well. The government is aiming to reveal an agriculture credit plan of Rs 62,000 crore this year.
Minister for dairy development Mahadev Jankar said that the state government had worked out a plan to bail out the loss-making milk industry as well as the farmers who are dependent on it.
Jankar said that the state would be announcing a subsidy for production of milk powder.
“Currently the cost of milk powder is very low in the international market due to the imbalance between demand and supply. We are trying to finalise a subsidy so that the losses can be bearable for the milk cooperatives,” said the dairy development minister.
He said that the proposal would be tabled in the upcoming cabinet for a final decision. Dairy farmers have been protesting against the state government for not getting a good rate for the milk they
produce.
Source | Times of India | 6th May 2018
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