Rs 12.05 crore allocated to DD Kisan for FY’22 : MIB Anurag Thakur

The Union Minister of Info and Broadcasting (I&B) Anurag Singh Thakur on Tuesday stated that the federal government has allotted a complete of Rs 12.05 crore to DD Kisan in monetary 12 months 2022-23, which is being utilised for farmers’ training.

Whereas answering a query requested by a politician and Lok Sabha member from Gujarat through the parliament session, the minister highlighted completely different initiatives the federal government is taking to teach farmers and construct their capability by imparting new data.

The I&B minister famous that Prasar Bharti’s 24×7 satellite tv for pc TV channel “DD Kisan” is completely devoted to the farmers and the agriculture sector. “The target of this channel is to serve and educate farmers and construct their capability to make use of new applied sciences of their actions and lengthen its attain to the remotest elements of the nation,” he added.

“The programmes of “DD Kisan” are designed to tell and educate the agricultural populace and work in the direction of making a holistic surroundings for sustainable and inclusive progress,” he added.

The minister additional defined that Krishi Darshan, the field-based tales on applied sciences in agriculture, main occasions and success tales, is telecast 5 days every week and Gaon Kisan, field-based tales on animal husbandry and agripreneurs, is telecast 5 days every week.

The programme Krishi Darshan is being telecast on 20 DD Channels in 12 languages, together with Hindi. Prasar Bharati additionally has a devoted YouTube channel for DD Kisan the place the viewers might entry this channel and in addition its varied programmes digitally throughout the globe.

Additional, All India Radio broadcasts a 30-minute, six days every week, devoted interactive programme, Kisanvani, in respective regional languages, over 96 AIR stations throughout the nation and Kisan Ki Baat programme over FM Gold Channel in Delhi, for the farming neighborhood in collaboration with the ministry of agriculture & farmers’ welfare, the federal government of India, he additionally added.

Thakur additionally talked about the federal government’s effort to analyse the utilisation of devoted channels for farmers.

He additional replied, “the affect of the DD Kisan Channel is often monitored by suggestions from the farmers throughout field-based and interactive recording, and from toll-free traces offered for farmers.”

“The common evaluation and affect of the channel are additionally finished by the scientists and consultants from ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Analysis), IARI (Indian Agricultural Analysis Institute) and KVKs (Krishi Vigyan Kendras), and many others.,” he added additional. News Sudden