Overview

• Saini launched the Har Ghar Chhaon — Har Ghar Phal initiative to distribute 55,000 fruit saplings free to 110 villages across 22 districts.
• The event featured financial support for livestock keepers with dummy cheques of up to ₹40,000 given to 50 cattle rearers.
• Seventy-five women received approval letters to establish dairies, signaling targeted backing for rural entrepreneurship.
• The chief minister inaugurated the Dattopant Thengadi Agricultural Entrepreneurship Centre along with two women’s hostels at CCSHAU to bolster capacity building.
• He urged a shift toward coarse grains and other low-water, high-value activities such as medicinal plants, beekeeping, mushrooms, vegetables and flowers, while citing relief and risk cover through the e-Kshatipurti portal, ₹15,000-per-acre compensation, ₹135 crore already paid to 29,864 farmers, and horticulture insurance for 21 crops.