Objectives & Functions

The main objective of Department of agriculture is to give pace to the growth rate of agriculture development and crop production and productivity which will strengthen the economic status of the farmers and uplift their life-style. In addition to this, the objective of the department is to implement suitable scheme for removal of regional disparity and employment generation.

Efforts being made to achieve the objective:-

To maintain a sustainable growth rate in agriculture production and food safety, extension of new techniques of agriculture and settlement of agriculture related problems of the farmer.
Implementation of different crop production schemes and program for growth in productivity of different crops.
Organization of technical demonstration through different schemes to get more production from suitable crops in different ecological circumstances and make the farmers aware of the results.
Implementation of running schemes and programs by the department for growth in production and productivity of different crops.
To ensure the supply of farm inputs to the farmers according to the time table.
To focus on quality control of different farms inputs which are necessary for farm productions.
In natural calamities, preparation of contingency plan according to the circumstances, to provide farmers the information about right crops cycle and arrangement of necessary farm inputs accordingly.
To increase the farm area by treatment of water log, uncultivable and waste land of the state.
Providing comprehensiveness to the crop insurance schemes implemented in the state to compensate the damages caused by natural calamities, insects/diseases in agricultural production.