• Objectives of District Planning
  The objective of district planning is to design an integrated and participatory action plan for the development of local area in general and agriculture and allied sectors in particular. The planning process should be initiated at grass root level i.e. at village / G.P. Level and obviously the planners at village level will have to collect the basic primary data. The objectives of Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan (C-DAP) are:
  
  
  • To prepare a Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan (C-DAP) through participatory process involving various organisations and stakeholders.
  
  
  • To enable optimum utilisation of scarce natural, physical & financial resources.
  
  
  • To assess and plan for the infrastructure required to support the agriculture development.
  
  
  • To establish linkages with the required institutional support services, like credit, technology transfer, ICT, research etc.
  
  
  • To evolve an action plan for achieving sustainable agricultural growth with food security and cropping system that will improve farmers? income.
  
  

        In this process, it will be ensured that

• The agricultural plans are prepared for the district and then integrated into the agricultural plans of the State based on the Agro-Climatic conditions, availability of technology, trained manpower and natural resources.


• The local needs / crops / feed and fodder / animal husbandry / dairying / fisheries / priorities are reflected in the plan.


• The productivity gaps for important crops and livestock and fisheris are reduced and the returns to the farmers from these are maximized


• There are quantifiable qualitative changes in the productivities of the above.


• The livestock and fisheries options are gien due consideration as an important source of income.