Last Updated: 01 Nov 2023
Objective: Handholding farmers towards cash crops & diversication[1]
Hired 2574 Kisan Mitras & 108 supervisors in Agri Dept[1:1]
✅ 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 |
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