Anantnag,26-Nov;Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare Department today organized a one day capacity building /training program at Agriculture Complex Anantnag for the officers/officials of the district.Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal inaugurated the program. While delivering his inaugural address Director said the capacity building is a practice that tends to improve the range of skills and competencies. The Department is working to increase the efficiency and capacity building of the officers and officials of the department so that they can deliver in an efficient way while implementing different flagship programs and schemes.Chowdhary impressed upon participants to utilize the training contents with interest so as to update themselves with the latest agricultural interventions.On the occasion Joint Directors and Chief Agriculture Officers deliberated upon certain priority issues, schemes, guidelines and policies being implemented by the department and also delivered lectures on micro irrigation system, marketing of organic agriculture produce, mushroom/apiculture, management of farms, and on schemes like PM-KMY, NFSM, PM KISSAN, KCC, Soil Health Card, and other CSS Flagship programs.During the program the participating officers thanked the department for organizing such programs and highlighted that these programs will definitely boost the moral and work culture among the officers/officials.The capacity building program was attended by Joint Director Agriculture Engineering Kashmir Alyas Khateeb, Joint Director Agriculture Extension Kashmir Sheikh Shahid Iqbal, Joint Direct Apiculture and Mushroom Development Kashmir Mohammad Syed Peer, Joint Director Agriculture Inputs Farooq Ahmad Bhat, Deputy Director Planning Mohammad Younis Chowdhary, Chief Agriculture Officers of Kashmir Division besides officers of the district Anantnag.Earlier Director Agriculture distributed farm machinery among the beneficiaries of district Anantnag.(CNS)
