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Looking at the immense potential of employment generation and income growth from fisheries, the Yogi Adityanath government is going to provide golden opportunities to the youth by providing them with jobs in fish farming.
An official spokesman said here on Saturday that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath believed that fisheries had immense employment potential and could play an important role in rural development and the economy.
This easy-to-start business will provide employment opportunities to millions of youth, starting from low capital. It will also help in increasing the income of the village panchayat from the ponds built on the barren gram panchayat land in the village.
The spokesman claimed that the previous governments did not do any significant work in this direction due to which the fisheries sector, which offered huge employment opportunities, remained backward. He said under the Yogi government, many beneficial schemes were going to be started by the Fisheries Department which would not only promote fisheries business but also provide jobs to the needy to help them become self-reliant once again.
Several schemes are being run by the Fisheries Department for the farmers. Along with imparting training on fisheries, efforts are being made by the government to expand this business on a larger scale. Now farmers can increase their incomes by farming as well as fisheries.
It is worth mentioning that the state government has increased the duration of fishery reservoirs from three years to 10 years as compared to previous governments. This is the reason that the state has produced 26.44 lakh metric tons of fish during the last four years. As many as 1191.27 crore fishery seeds were produced in four years and 5,902 fish farmers were distributed Kisan Credit Cards.
The state government also provided the benefit of free fishermen accident insurance scheme to the farmers by implementing the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana under the Self-Reliant India Campaign.
It is noteworthy that the present government has allotted houses to 2,215 fishermen in the state in the last four years. Along with this, the fishermen of UP have increased the facilities by operating the Fish Farmer app. People are directly being benefited from the construction of 57 fish seed hatcheries and 385 fish seed rearing units in the state.
Recently, Uttar Pradesh received the first prize of the Best State of Inland Fisheries under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. This undoubtedly is one of the biggest achievements of the state government.