10 Assam Districts Under NFSM-Pulses

Guwahati, Feb 12 : The Union Ministry of Agriculture has included ten districts of Assam for the purpose of growing more pulses under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) for 2010-11.

This was conveyed by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in a letter to chief minister Tarun Gogoi, an official release said here today.

Pawar said the ministry acceded to the request of the state government to include the districts of Barpeta, Nagaon, Sonitpur, Dhubri, Baksa, Kamrup (rural), Jorhat, Udalguri, Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar under NFSM-pulses programme.

He asked the government to submit an action plan as per the operational guidelines of the NFSM-pulses programme to the Centre indicating the intervention-wise physical and financial targets for 2010-11.