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OTHER DEPARTMENTS
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AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
Organisation: Activities pertaining to agriculture in the district are under dual control of the State Government and the Zilla Parishad, respectively. The activities regarding plant protection scheme, cotton extension scheme, integrated oil-seed development scheme, mechanical cultivation scheme and blasting and boring scheme and seed multiplication farm scheme are entrusted to the Department of Agriculture in the State sector.
The department at the State level is headed by the Secretary to the Agriculture and Forest department who is the administrative head of the department. At the directorate level it is headed by the Director of Agriculture with his headquarters at Pune. He is assisted by four Joint Directors each in charge of establishment, extension, agricultural engineering and agricultural research and education, respectively.
Superintending Agricultural Officer: The Superintending Agricultural Officer responsible to the Director of Agriculture, Maharashtra State, Pune, is the technical head of the division. Even though he is the officer in the State sector, he guides the District Agricultural Officer in technical matters who heads the agriculture department of the Zilla Parishad in the district sector. He is assisted in his work by personal Assistants, two Deputy Directors, one each for agricultural engineering and agricultural
research and education, an Assistant Statistician, a Crop Protection Officer and a Horticultural Development Officer. Guidance is also sought from specialists on different branches such as Agronomist, Plan Pathologist, Agricultural Chemist, Agricultural Entomologist, Soil Specialist, Oil Seed Specialist, Rice Specialist, Millet Specialist, Statistician and Horticulturist.
District Agricultural Officer: In the district sector, the District Agricultural Officer controls the activities of the Zilla Parishad. He also works as the secretary of the agriculture committee. The Agricultural Development Officer, Zilla Parishad, Akola is a class I officer at district level who is on deputation to Zilla Parishad from the State Government and works under the administrative control of the Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Akola. The Agricultural Development Officer implements the local sector schemes of the district and he is assisted by the District Agricultural Officer, the Campaign Officer, the Agricultural Officer and at block level by the Agricultural Extension Officer who works under the Development Officer of the tahsil, in the district. As
regards hybrid seed production programme the hybrid seed production officer who is deputed by the State Government, supervises and implements the above programme.
The following schemes were undertaken in the State sector.
(i) Establishment of tahsil seed multiplication farms:
(ii) Scheme for development of local manurial resources; subsidy for town compost and dhaincha seeds;
(iii) Scheme for raising transplanted cotton on well irrigation and supply of polythene bags at the subsidised rates;
(iv) Central schemes for carrying out demonstration and investigation of plant protection measures on cotton;
(v) Construction of new wells;
(vi) Installation of pumping sets,
(vii) Scheme for contour bunding, graded bunding, Nala bunding etc.
(viii) Scheme for reclamation of non-coastal saline and alkaline lands;
(ix) Establishment of seed processing plans;
(x) Establishment of 3 divisions and 16 sub-divisions and;
(xi) Establishment of trial-cum-demonstration farms:
The following local sector schemes were undertaken by the Agricultural Development Officer, Zilla Parishad, Akola.
(i) Construction of buildings at agricultural school,
(ii) Scheme for distribution of sann seed for green manuring;
(iii) Loans under horticultural development schemes;
(iv) Intensive cultivation for food crops;
(v) Multicrop demonstration scheme;
(vi) Development of lands belonging to backward class cultivators; and
(vii) Irrigation wells for backward class cultivators.
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