OTHER DEPARTMENTS

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

Organisaton.

The State Government and the Zilla Parishad jointly implement the schemes of Agriculture department pertaining to the district. The State sector schemes are implemented by the Divisional Soil Conservation Officer, Wardha and the schemes in local sector are implemented by the Agricultural Development Officer, Zilla Parishad, Wardha.

The department at the State level is headed by the Secretary, Agriculture and Co-operation department, Sachivalaya, Bombay, who is also the administrative head of the department. At the Directorate level the Director of Agriculture, Maharashtra State, is the technical and administrative head of the department with his headquarters at Pune. He is assisted by 5 Joint Directors of Agriculture at the State level who are each in-charge of establishment, soil conservation and engineering, Research and Education, horticulture, and extension respectively with their headquarters at Pune.

The Superintending Agricultural Officer, Nagpur Division, Nagpur, represents the Director of Agriculture at regional level with eight districts of Vidarbha under his jurisdiction. He is the technical and administrative head of the division. The Superintending Agricultural Officer also guides the Zilla Parishad, Wardha in implementing the local sector schemes. For this he is assisted by the Deputy Director of Agriculture and by Plant Protection Officer, Seed Development Officer, Assistant Horticultural Development Officer, Assistant Vegetable Development Officer, Assistant Oilseeds Extension Officer, Assistant Compost Development Officer, Hybrid Seed Production Officer, Assistant Statistician, Divisional Supervisor (fertilizer varietal trials) and Agricultural Engineer for implementing State sector schemes and for also giving technical advise to the Zilla Parishad for local sector schemes of Agriculture department. In addition, the State level specialists also guide the Zilla Parishad.

The Agricultural Development Officer of the Zilla Parishad is a class I officer at the district level and works under the administrative control of the Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad. The Agricultural Development Officer is assisted by the Agricultural Officer, Zilla Parishad Campaign Officer, Zilla Parishad, and Hybrid Seed Production Officer who is on deputation to the Zilla Parishad from the State Government for supervision of hybrid seed production scheme. The Hybrid Seed Production Officer is under the administrative control of Divisional Soil Conservation Officer, Wardha.

The following schemes are implemented by the department in the State sector:—

(1) Establishment of Agricultural Research Station, Wardha under Wardha Plan.

(2) Establishment of taluka seed farm buildings and land development.

(3) Subsidy for town compost.

(4) Intensive production of vegetables and quick growing fruits for supply to cities.

(5) Construction of irrigation wells (subsidy).

(6) Installation of pumping sets (grant of subsidy).

(7) Digging of Irrigation wells by air compressor and blasting.

(8) Underground water survey scheme (Wardha Plan).

(9) Scheme for contour bunding and contour trenching.

(10) Reclamation of pan basan soils under Wardha Plan.

(11) Reclamation of non-coastal saline and alkaline soils.

(12) Establishment of trial-cum-demonstration farm.

(13) Continuance of sub-division for land development work in irrigation project, and

(14) Construction of seed processing plants.

The following schemes in the district sector are looked after by the Zilla Parishad:—

(1) Construction of buildings for Agricultural School, Selsura.

(2) Continuance of staff for hybrid seed production programme.

(3) Scheme for distribution of sann seed for green manuring of crops.

(4) Developntent of local manurial resources (Wardha Plan).

(5) Laying out compost demonstrations (Wardha Plan).

(6) Plant protection scheme.

(7) Intensive cultivation of food crops.

(8) General horticultural development scheme.

(9) Reclamation of waste land belonging to backward class cultivators (subsidy).

(10) Irrigation wells for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

(11) Campaign unit for commissioning wells out of use (Wardha plan).

(12) Establishment of irrigation unit for Bor Project under Wardha Plan.

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