Har to take farmers' waterlogged land on lease for fish

The Haryana Fisheries department will take on lease land on which people are unable to carry out farming activities due to the waterlogging problem and carry out fish farming.
Fish farming would be carried out on land taken on lease, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister O P Dhankar said here.
More than 4.15 lakh hectares of land in the state is waterlogged. Of these, 16,000 hectares in villages of Jhajjar, Rohtak and Charkhi Dadri districts, where the farmers are unable to carry out any farming activity, have been identified for fish farming, he said.
"It has been decided that in the first phase, these areas of Jhajjar and Charkhi Dadri would be covered under a pilot project. These areas are in proximity to Delhi," Dhankar said.

The fisheries department would take land on lease for five years at rates prescribed by the panchayat department. Farmers interested in leasing their land may inform block development officers concerned, he said.
The minister said a committee, comprising officers of departments of agriculture, irrigation and fisheries, and panchayats has been constituted and responsibilities has been fixed for quick action on this scheme.