Kohima, March 30 (MExN): The Kemeci Farmers Club comprising of twenty likeminded peers with the vision of uplifting the farming community of Chunlikha and neighbouring villages under Kohima district was inaugurated on March 29 by Longma Yanger, Subject Matter Specialist (SMS)–Extension from Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Kohima, Tesophenyu. The stakeholders in the Club are State Bank of India, Tseminyu branch, KVK Kohima and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). The meeting was chaired by ZukeyaWoch, Chaiman of the Village Council and attended by Smt. Amenla, Branch Manager, SBI, Tseminyu branch, Khekali, SMS, KVK Kohima and BendangAier, AGM, NABARDas Resource Persons. Lauding the objective of Kemeci Farmers’ Club to bring about “development through credit”, the Resource Persons also called upon the members to maintain strict financial discipline, transparency in work, develop long term relationship with various development agencies including banks and adopt new technologies in their fields for increasing production and productivity. Discussion for preparing Village Development Plan (VDP), calendar of activities including recovery of overdue bank loans and conduct of Base Level Orientation Programme were the other highlights of the day.
