Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday told assembly that a comprehensive warehousing act will be legislated to create storage infrastructure at the panchayat level and cold storage facilities shall be established on a PPP mode at the block level.
Replying to a debate on Governior S C Jamir's customary address on the maiden day of the budget session, Naveen said, "To streamline the post-harvest management, we shall ensure, in all procurement districts mandis, concrete drying platforms and threshing floors for every 5000 population."
Highlighting the government's initiatives in the agriculture and allied sector, he said a second agriculture university will be established in KBK region to augment manpower needs for the agriculture sector. "We will exempt tax on trolleys attached to tractors," he said.
Pointing out that the total cultivable area of the state is 61 lakh hectare, he said this 28 lakh hectare have been irrigated from all sources which represents about 45 percent of the total cultivable area. "We envision to create an additional irrigation potential for 10 lakh hectare in the next five years," he said, adding, "We will make available high quality seeds, fertilizers, pesticides insecticides and required agricultural technical extensive services to our farmers. On a mission mode, all defunct lift irrigation points which are feasible shall be restored and operationalized. Seed replacement ratio will be increased substantially and our endeavour will be to transfer all subsidies and financial assistance directly to the bank account of individual farmers in coming days."
"We shall take all possible steps to convert 'Katcha' houses into 'Pucca' houses in a phased manner by providing suitable financial assistance," he said. He further said, "We shall fulfil in a time-bound manner the primary infrastructure needs in areas of road communication, drinking water, electrification, irrigation, agriculture and education in both rural and urban areas of the State. Lack of access to infrastructure shall not become a barrier to growth and development of Odisha."
Special focus shall be given to all-round development of girls and other vulnerable groups, he informed. "With a view to easing the unemployment situation, the State Government will set up Chief Ministers' Employment Generation Scheme," he said. Recruitment in the government in all fields would be scaled up and local talent will be encouraged, he added. An 'Innovation Fund' shall be created to incubate new business ideas coming from young entrepreneurs, he further said.
Stating that women empowerment is an instrument of good governance, he said to scale up interventions in that direction the government will formulate a 'holistic women policy' shortly.
A new rural connectivity scheme called 'Chief Minister Sadak Yojana' will be launched.
Replying to a debate on Governior S C Jamir's customary address on the maiden day of the budget session, Naveen said, "To streamline the post-harvest management, we shall ensure, in all procurement districts mandis, concrete drying platforms and threshing floors for every 5000 population."
Highlighting the government's initiatives in the agriculture and allied sector, he said a second agriculture university will be established in KBK region to augment manpower needs for the agriculture sector. "We will exempt tax on trolleys attached to tractors," he said.
Pointing out that the total cultivable area of the state is 61 lakh hectare, he said this 28 lakh hectare have been irrigated from all sources which represents about 45 percent of the total cultivable area. "We envision to create an additional irrigation potential for 10 lakh hectare in the next five years," he said, adding, "We will make available high quality seeds, fertilizers, pesticides insecticides and required agricultural technical extensive services to our farmers. On a mission mode, all defunct lift irrigation points which are feasible shall be restored and operationalized. Seed replacement ratio will be increased substantially and our endeavour will be to transfer all subsidies and financial assistance directly to the bank account of individual farmers in coming days."
"We shall take all possible steps to convert 'Katcha' houses into 'Pucca' houses in a phased manner by providing suitable financial assistance," he said. He further said, "We shall fulfil in a time-bound manner the primary infrastructure needs in areas of road communication, drinking water, electrification, irrigation, agriculture and education in both rural and urban areas of the State. Lack of access to infrastructure shall not become a barrier to growth and development of Odisha."
Special focus shall be given to all-round development of girls and other vulnerable groups, he informed. "With a view to easing the unemployment situation, the State Government will set up Chief Ministers' Employment Generation Scheme," he said. Recruitment in the government in all fields would be scaled up and local talent will be encouraged, he added. An 'Innovation Fund' shall be created to incubate new business ideas coming from young entrepreneurs, he further said.
Stating that women empowerment is an instrument of good governance, he said to scale up interventions in that direction the government will formulate a 'holistic women policy' shortly.
A new rural connectivity scheme called 'Chief Minister Sadak Yojana' will be launched.
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