More than 80,000 farmers participated in three rounds of the orientation programme being held under Kisan Sampark Abhiyan, the Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), Jammu and Kashmir, recently.

Nearly, 800 panchayats from across all the districts of the Union Territory have been covered, to date, under the Abhiyan, read an official statement as quoted by ANI.

According to the official release, a first-of-its-kind massive farmer’s orientation exercise is being undertaken by Agriculture Production Department at UT.

The ambitious target of reaching out to farmers in each and every Panchayat of the UT has been envisaged under the Kisan Sampark Abhiyan in the next 4 months. The exercise which commenced on April 24 is scheduled to conclude on August 31, 2023. The farmers outreach exercise has been planned under the recently launched Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP), it said.

The official release further said that the Orientation programme is being organised simultaneously across all districts of the UT. The programme has been designed to be conducted on the first three days of every week.