Rupesh Samant

Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Mar 31: The Goa government is yet to finalise its State Agriculture Policy, even nine years after a special committee was formed for the same.

State Agriculture minister Chandrakant Kavlekar told the House during the recently concluded Budget Session that the committee constituted to frame the State Agriculture Policy, has not met off late after its chairman resigned from the post.

As per the attachment submitted along with the written answer on the floor of the House, the then Member of Parliament Narendra Sawaikar headed this committee which was formed in 2012.

Kavlekar said that the state government will take all the stakeholders into confidence before finalisation of the policy.

“The government has conducted a series of meetings involving all the stakeholders for drafting the State Agriculture Policy,” he added.

Kavlekar said that his department has already prepared a draft agriculture policy, which is in the public domain.