Chief Secy urges youth to look beyond govt jobs

November 5, 2021 53 Views No Comment

DIMAPUR, NOV 5 (NPN) : State chief secretary, J Alam, has encouraged the youth in the state to look beyond jobs in the public sector as the government employment has reached its saturation point.

According to a DIPR report, Alam, who made an experiential visit to KAAS Coffee farm, Sendenyu village, along with agriculture production commissioner (APC), Y Kikheto Sema and land resources department officials on November 4, urged the youth to find and invest in other avenue and coffee being a very promising crop. Alam said he was delighted to experience an actual hands-on in the field for coffee harvesting and processing. He said that the visit was once in a lifetime experience.

The chief secretary said he was amazed as to how much work was actually taking place on the ground and was impressed to see the progressive villagers undertaking such activities. Alam stated that the government could not focus on many developmental activities during the pandemic, but learned how much “we are dependent on the outside world and how much requirement is there for us to be self-dependent in terms of economic needs.”

He, therefore, urged the youth to take up such kind of activities that were labour intensive and provided sustainable income.

“Potential has always been there, and we are blessed with a very fertile land and huge resource, for the last decades we have been experimenting in different land-based activities for viable crops unfortunately it failed because substantial activities were not taken into consideration,” Alam stated.

Lauding the village for being a biodiversity conservative village, the chief secretary appreciated the efforts of the “cautious villagers for protecting and conserving the density of forest which will contribute a lot in balancing the biodiversity.”

The chief secretary assured that the government would extend support in possible areas for the requirements and would take up with the concerned department for further development.

APC Nagaland, Y Kikheto Sema, stated that the hills of Nagaland, were now growing organic coffee, which was not only being sold locally, but exported to international markets.

He said Nagaland at present has nearly 10,000 hectares of coffee cultivation, adding that the department was taking steps to expand it to 50,000 hectares by 2030. The land resource department has exported 27.5 metric tonnes of coffee to the South African company, which signed an agreement to buy Nagaland coffee for 30 years.

“Our aim is to generate at least one lakh jobs as Nagaland lacks industrial activities. Another aim is to prevent the impact of climate change by encouraging farmers to give up jhum cultivation and switch over to coffee,” APC said.

Dr. G. Thong, Orthpaedic NHAK, HoD, highlighted the activities of Kebentsin Agri & allied cooperative society (KAAS) Sendenyu village of KAAS Coffee farm.

The coffee farm began in the year 2015 with the initiative of the DPO, LRD Kohima and the land for plantation covers a compact area measuring about 25-26 hectares which was voluntarily donated by members of the club.

He pointed out that total number of coffee plants within the farm at present was around 80,000 and have supplied 1,80,000 coffee saplings enabling 45 households in Sendenyu area to start coffee farming.

DPO Kohima, Dr. Menuosietuo Tseikha, elaborated on the cycle of coffee plantation. He also presented a live hands-on to process the cherries till the drying the beans.

Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com/chief-secy-urges-youth-to-look-beyond-govt-jobs/243854.html