Council of Rengma Baptist Churches (CRBC) in collaboration with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (DEDS) and Joint Liability Group (JLG) for dairy farmers on August 25 in the conference hall of CRBC, Zunpha.
Veterinary assistant surgeon, Dr. Gwazenlo Tep, sensitized the participants about the scope of setting up dairy farms and importance of adopting scientific practices while undertaking dairy activities to realise its full potential.
To encourage dairying with bank loan, AGM, NABARD, Bendang Aier discussed the objective, features and facilities available under DEDS which was a credit linked subsidy scheme of GoI. Aier also sensitized the farmers about JLG and requested CRBC to mobilise interested dairy farmers into groups on cluster basis for effective implementation and monitoring. In Nagaland state, a total of 82 and 344 dairy farmers were assisted under the Scheme during the year 2014-15 and 2015-16 respectively, Aier said.
Speaking on the occasion, branch manager of Nagaland State Cooperative Bank (NStCB), Tseminyu branch, Puhovil Tsukru, shared his concern about poor recovery climate especially under Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme.
Calling upon the participants to respect the terms and conditions of credit, branch manager of Vijaya Bank, Tseminyu branch, Nitish Chakravorty also expressed his willingness to extend necessary assistance to the people in collaboration with CRBC.
Development secretary, CRBC, Arhunlo Semp chaired the meeting while John, pastor and Hini Tep, secretary, CED, Zunpha pronounced the invocation and vote of thanks respectively.
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