SHILLONG: The Hill Farmers’ Union (HFU) has asked the state government to declare the year 2019 as year of the farmers besides establishing Farmers Commission at the earliest.
The demand from the Union came after a delegation met the Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong here on Tuesday.
The president of the Union, C Shangpliang also said that the Government must establish an implementation and monitoring committee for all the agriculture and allied sector scheme and mission at the block level of the state with HFU as a stakeholder.
Demanding for a comprehensive agricultural policy for the state, the Union said that the enactment of the agriculture produce and livestock marketing promotion and facilitation Act,2017 would be of great help for the farming community
The Union also asked for allocation of special funds for conducting awareness programme on various mission and scheme of the Government and skill training in collaboration with HFU and also for introduction and promotion of new technologies (like, Mobile App Development by HFU, Seed technologies, Tissue culture lab, Solar based food dryers, etc.) and methodologies.
They also wanted the Government to allocate land and special incentive for setting up pineapple and tomato processing plant by HFU.