‘Focus more on result oriented schemes, not total area, population covered’
Our Correspondent
Kohima | May 30
Maintaining that Nagaland has ample scope for development of animal husbandry, Dr I Longriniken, Chairman of Development Authority of Nagaland and Bio-Resources Mission today asked the State’s Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Department to come out with better schemes to encourage farmers and the villagers to take up animal husbandry as profession.
“Let us not focus on total area covered or the number of population covered. But let us focus more on the result oriented schemes,” he said while addressing the officers’ conference of the department here at Hotel Japfu.
He called for doing away with the system of providing incentives/subsidies achievement of the result. “This system encourages the farmers to focus on financial benefit only, rather than on the successful implementations of the schemes.”
He stressed on the need to focus more on motivational training of farmers and encouraging them to take up livestock as a profession and show them the scope and prospect of economic development through animal husbandry practices.
Stressing on the importance of exports, he said the Agri and allied sectors including Veterinary & Animal Husbandry can play a big role in economic development of the state.
On animal health, he suggested more focus on preventive and control measures, through educating farmers on management of animals and vaccines.
Dr. Longriniken also said that Nagas need a social transformation and develop work culture, while urging the same to veterinarians and officers of the department.
On the unemployment problem, he stated criticized the thinking the employment means government service only. “Employment means any kind of job that may be a government service, or business, farming, entrepreneurship or even manual labour works that gives monetary benefit for the time you have spent and makes you economically independents and sustains yourself.”
He added, it is not possible for the government to give employment to all, as the government sector itself is over employed.
