DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 10 -- HIMACHAL Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said that focus of the state government was to empower farmers organisations and self-help groups (SHGs) at cluster, district and apex levels, implement crop diversification plans (CDPs), postharvest value addition to double the farmers income by 2022 as envisioned by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Presiding over the inaugural session of international workshop on "Impact of crop diversification on farmers income and food security" organised by Department of Agriculture here on Monday, he said majority of farmers of the state were marginal and small and about 80 per cent of the cropped area was rainfed.
He said that the Department of Agriculture proposed a loan project for J...