Agri laggard districts make headway under converged central schemes: Officials
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- ✓Low-productivity districts like Gadchiroli and Dantewada show progress under the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana.
- ✓Officials said, "Through convergence we aim to boost agriculture in these districts, and the initial response has been encouraging." The scheme uses pooled resources to improve irrigation and crop diversification across 100 aspirational Indian districts.
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Several Naxal-affected and low-productivity districts like Gadchiroli, Dantewada, Alluri Sitharaman Raju, and Banka show progress in irrigation, crop diversification, and natural farming through the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana scheme.
Panda said that by pooling resources from eight central and state schemes across the Departments of Agriculture, Minor Irrigation, Water Conservation, Forest and Mining, and Irrigation, over 3,100 farm ponds, recharge shafts, and farm bunding works through bamboo plantation were completed in the last year. This, according to the official, has led to improvement in post-harvest storage capacities and farmers adopting crop diversification to maize, ragi, vegetables and spices like turmeric.
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