Hiring Kisan Mitras i.e. Govt Agriculture warriors on ground to help farmers in Punjab

Updated: 1/5/2024
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Last Updated: 01 Nov 2023

Objective: Handholding farmers towards cash crops & diversication[1]

Hired 2574 Kisan Mitras & 108 supervisors in Agri Dept[1:1]

Details[1:2]

✅ Performance linked payment
✅ 108 supervisors: Qualification BSc Agriculture
✅ 8 Districts targeted
✅ Cotton: 1 Mitra/village
✅ Basmati: 1 Mitra/2 village

All Kisan Mitras are trained by Punjab Agriculture University

Crop District Blocks Villages No. of Kisan Mitra
Cotton Bathinda 9 268 268
Mansa 5 242 242
Fazilka1 (Cotton blocks) 3 212 212
Muktsar 4 233 233
Sub-Total 32 955 955
Basmati Gurdaspur 11 1124 562
Tarn Taran 8 489 245
Ferozepur 6 689 345
Fazilka (Basmati blocks) 2 184 92
Amritsar 9 750 375
Sub-Total 36 3236 1619

Duties[1:3]

  1. Visit to fields of different farmers on regular intervals
  2. Encourage as many farmers as possible to grow diversified crops instead of paddy
  3. Conduct regular training programs and camps at block/village level + themselves undergo training at PAU as required
  4. Educate farmers with relevant information to help make informed decisions on planting diversified crops
  5. Disseminate information on government’s latest policies, schemes, incentives
  6. etc

References:

  1. https://agri.punjab.gov.in/sites/default/files/Guidelines_Final_V1 (1).pdf ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

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