To promote the cultivation of these lands, the National Agricultural Development Programme; National Food Security Programme; Water Resources Land Resources Program; Seed Village Project; National Agricultural Development Programme; Seed Production Scheme; The government is implementing several schemes called Agricultural Technology Scheme known as Atma.
Through these schemes, thousands of small, marginal and pioneer farmers, farmers of various categories are getting agricultural inputs and machinery and are benefiting. In this, it has been revealed that 65 villages have not benefited from any of the schemes, according to a recent survey of the Department of Agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture has advised the respective District Joint Directors of Agriculture to pay more attention to such villages and increase cultivation propagation.
An agricultural official who did not wish to be named said: In Kanchipuram district, out of total 430 agricultural villages, 65 villages have not benefited from the agricultural schemes. The reason is that there is no arable land in those villages. In such villages, the government should take alternative measures to increase the value of agricultural produce and sell it.
Similarly, we are going to increase the cultivation area by selecting the beneficiaries under the All Village Agriculture Development Scheme in the villages which are not benefited all over Tamil Nadu. In particular, under the barren land development scheme, we are going to bring thousands of acres of uncultivated land under cultivation. He said this.