HBS suggests roadmap for cooperative based agricultural farming

Chief Minister holds a meeting of the committee constituted to practise cooperative farming at Gorukhuti in Darrang district

Guwahati, June 25 (NKTV): Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today held a meeting of MLA Padma Hazarika led committee to suggest a roadmap for cooperative based agricultural farming at Gorukhuti in Sipajhar of Darrang district at the conference room of his office in Janata Bhawan today.

It may be noted that following encroachment of land by illegal occupants in Gorukhuti and thereafter freeing the encroachments by police and district administration, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma during his visit to the riverine areas on June 7 announced that a cooperative based farming would be introduced in Gorukhuti to its several thousand bigha of land. To take his plan of farming to its logical end, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma constituted a committee under the leadership of Sootea MLA Padma Hazarika.

In the meeting, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma took stock of the preliminary works undertaken by the committee. While expressing his satisfaction with the introductory works, Dr. Sarma asked the committee to prepare a draft highlighting its agenda of schemes before the budget session of the Assembly and submit it to him.

Chairman of the committee MLA Padma Hazarika, members Dilip Saikia and Paramananda Rajbongshi, member-secretary cum Director, Agriculture Department Vinod Seshan and Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha were present in the meeting.