Srinagar, May 11 -- Holistic Agriculture Development Programme has emerged as a structural intervention in the rural economy of Jammu and Kashmir. It has established more than one lakh units across all districts, reaching thousands of farming families and generating measurable income gains. The initiative has created employment in millions of man-days, produced revenue and profit at the beneficiary level, and demonstrated financial sustainability with subsidy recovery projected in a short span. These outcomes show that agriculture can be repositioned as a sector of growth rather than subsistence.

Yet the programme's reach remains limited when compared to the full base of eligible farmers. Only a small proportion of the PM-Kisan beneficia...