To change the tide and make farming attractive once again, the government introduced Community Farming scheme in the State. But the community farming scheme gave us a boost to continue farming,” said Pratap Pednekar, a farmer from Galgibaga. The subsidy is limited to Rs 2.50 lakh per hectare, irrespective of area covered by the community farming group. The community farming can be undertaken as Joint Community Farming and Loosely Amalgamated Community Farming. Under Loosely Amalgamated Community Farming, a community farming group is formed with the intention to create permanent infrastructure such as fencing, creation of irrigation infrastructure, etc and the cost of infrastructure is borne in the name of the group.

Source: The Herald December 02, 2023 20:56 UTC