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| 60 to 80 percent damage to crops in Jammu region | | | Early Times Report
SAMBA, May 3: Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr Pawan Kotwal accompanied by District Development Commissioner (DDC) Samba and Director Agriculture, Jammu, besides senior officers of revenue and agriculture department conducted an extensive tour of District Samba.
During the tour, Divisional Commissioner visited various villages including Patli Morh, Kamala, Swankha, Supwal, Chak Ram Chand, Badheri and adjoining areas to inspect ongoing work of “Fard Girdawari Raftar” in these villages. During the inspection, he interacted with local farmers, Sarpanchs and Panches and local public of these villages.
Farmers apprised Divisional Commissioner that wheat crop has been damaged extensively due to yellow rust and also due to adverse weather conditions like excessive rain fall and hail storm etc. and the yield of the crop is only to the extent of 25 percent in comparison to the previous year’s production.
He also inspected the revenue records in the villages as per the schedule of Harvest Inspection going in the field and took stock of the work done by Patwaries, Girdawari, Tehsildars and senior officers, on spot, in the villages and found the entries recorded by the officials satisfactory.
He also issued directions to the officers and officials to carry out inspection in presence of Numberdars, Chowkidars, Sarpanches and other persons so as to make entries transparently and correctly and further impressed upon the officials to record the yield of the crops after making a proper assessment of the yield in each area.
It was found on the spot, in most of the villages, that damage to the crops has been ranging from 60-80 percent and there would be significant stress on the supplies of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CA&PD) in coming months, due to shortage of food grains owing to damage of wheat crop.
A deputation of DPs of 1971 also met the Divisional Commissioner at village Supwal and requested for compensation in lieu of deficiency of land and Divisional Commissioner issued instructions for putting up all such cases to his office. He also directed for projecting the various demands of public like up-gradation of Schools, Installation of Mark-II hand pumps and up-gradation of Power Supply for meeting the demands of local public of the villages in the District Plan or other schemes.
Later, the Divisional Commissioner took stock of ongoing work of Bay Side Amenities near Chichi Mata Temple Complex being developed by NHAI and directed that pace of work be expedited so as to complete the work before the start of “Amarnath Yatra”.
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