Mizoram Governor P.S. Sreedharan
Pillai on Tuesday said that the state government has accorded the highest priority to achieving self-sufficiency, especially in food grains.
Addressing the assembly on the first day of the budget session, Pillai said that Mizoram has seen steady progress in the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes and the states flagship programme - Socio-Economic Development Policy (SEDP).
He said that oil palm cultivation area has increased to 26,531 hectare, a rise of 2.34 per cent, by the end of 2020.
The governor said that under the Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region, a Central Sector Scheme, Mizoram has covered 13,000 hectare of land involving 14,104 farmers.