Port Blair, May 27: With an objective to achieve the goal of reducing the yield gaps in important crops through focused interventions and to maximize returns to the farmers in Agriculture and allied sectors, the Department of Agriculture is implementing various Centrally Sponsored Schemes in the Union Territory of A&N Islands.
The Department is implementing Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) programme wherein 50% assistance limited to a maximum of Rs. 60,000/- per hectare per beneficiary (one time investment) is provided for making of Broad Bed & Furrow System. Individual farmer having minimum 1 ha of agriculture land may avail assistance under this scheme.
Broad Bed & Furrow System is a technology that improves stability, and efficiency into higher quality produce without polluting environment and ecosystem and secure high income and employment. It involves in making of broad beds & furrows to provide drainage and standing water to the required crops by adopting Integrated Farming System (IFS) components like fish rearing in the furrows, fodder crops in the beds which in turn helps to include animal component in the system. The bed can be utilized for growing coconut along with intercrops like vegetable, fruits, root crops, fodder etc. and the furrow will be utilized for paddy cultivation, duckery & fish farming/ aquaculture.
Interested farmers can avail the benefits by applying in the prescribed format available at all the Zonal Agriculture Offices on or before June, 2012.
