Lack of quality seeds, market for produce key challenges for Hry farmers: Experts

As the 15-day nationwide "Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan" (VKSA) ended with a programme by Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Gujarat on Thursday, heads of the ICAR institutes in Karnal presented the summary of Haryana chapter of the campaign, putting poor availability of quality seeds, lack of marketing access and awareness regarding crop insurance, loans and other subsidies as major challenges before farmers.

- Bhavey Nagpal

KARNAL:

National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) director Dheer Singh, who was the Nodal Officer for VKSA in Haryana, said that 902 teams worked to gather the issues and written feedback or grievances were taken from the farmers during the campaign from May 29 to June 12.

At a press conference at his office, Singh said that the teams comprising scientists from the central institutes, with support from the state government and other institutes visited 3,482 cluster villages in all 22 districts of the state and had a direct interaction with nearly 4.5 lakh farmers.

"We received feedback of more than 10,000 farmers and some common among them will be clubbed for a final report to be submitted with the higher authorities," the NDRI director said.