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MANIFESTO : 2018
We shall promote commercial farming through farm mechanization and suitable agriculture technologies.
We shall promote cultivation of all fallow lands in the country.
We shall maintain existing irrigation channels and construct 700 kms of new irrigation channels to irrigate about 50,000 acres of land.
We shall adopt new irrigation and water e cient technologies.
We shall establish agricultural enterprises for products such as honey, egg, piggery, dairy and others in di erent parts of the country.
We shall promote farm mechanization.
We shall promote private ownership of power tillers by subsidizing the cost and facilitate access to nance for agricultural enterprises through Priority Sector Lending (PSL), Rural Enterprise Development Corporation Limited (REDCL), micro nance programs and Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL).
We shall provide one more power tiller to every chiwog and ensure that every chiwog has a minimum of two power tillers.
We shall establish repair and maintenance workshops in every gewog for repair and maintenance of farm machinery such as power tillers.
We shall encourage contract farming through Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
We shall enhance access to nance for agriculture related businesses through programs such as REDCL, PSL and BDBL.
To encourage youth in agriculture, we shall facilitate access to nance through Priority Sector Lending (PSL).
We shall promote organic agriculture and organic livestock farming through several strategies including developing Organic Guarantee and Certi cation System (OGCS).
We shall continue to support Farmers’ Groups for production and marketing. We shall increase the export of Bhutanese agricultural produce and products by establishing market linkages abroad.
PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY UNITY. STABILITY. PROSPERITY.