Vimukti Charitable trust® with the
collaboration of District and Taluka Forest Department organized
awareness programme to the farmers in the project area on 5th July
2017. The main aim of the program was to make know the various
Government schemes accessible to the farmers; in return they tap
these schemes and benefit from it. The farmers were being informed
especially regarding “AGRO-FOREST DEVELEOPMENT SCHEME”. This scheme
envisages providing farmers with saplings of some of the local
variety plants like Honge or the Pongamia pinnata, Indian
gooseberry, Mango, tamarind and some medicinal, herbal plants.
During the first year the farmers would be given Rs.10 towards
expenditure on maintenance of each sapling; in the subsequent years
Rs.15 and Rs.20. A preliminary demand survey is to be conducted this
June by the department, to ascertain the demand by farmers.
Enrolment of farmers under the scheme would be facilitated by
officials visiting nada Kacheri (office) and Grama Panchayats. . The
awareness was created in the targeted project area; as a result 13
farmers were availed with the 420 saplings and got benefited from
this scheme.
