Agriculture Minister Distributes Seeds & Pesticides among Farmers @tatatrusts @cinicell @Bayer

01 July 2020, Khunti: Mr. Badal Patralekh (Agriculture Minister, Jharkhand) has distributed paddy-maize seeds & pesticides among 40 marginalized farmers during a program organized under joint auspices of district administration, Sewa Welfare Society and NBJK.

Murhu Nari Shakti Kisan Producer Company Limited, an apex community institution promoted by NBJK with support of CInI-Tata Trusts has identified about 800 such tillers and many of them are reverse migrant households who are coming back to villages due to COVID-19 pandemic. MNSKPCL encourages them to be engaged with cultivation. The seeds & pesticides were made available by Bayer Crop Science. To strengthen the move, district agriculture department has provided 4 quintals seed of pigeon pea to NBJK for aspirant farmers. The farmers are getting masks also.

The agriculture minister was accompanied by Mr. Arvind Mishra (DDC), Mr. Hemant Sathi (SDM), Mr. Kali Charan Munda, Mr. Mohit Purty and others on the occasion.

As another development, 50 selected farmers from Adki, Murhu, Khunti, Karra and Torpa blocks got training on lemongrass farming and hon. minister dispensed improved seeds to them.