Farm stir: UP to launch massive farmers' outreach programme from Jan 6

Of nearly 23 million farming households in UP, 90% are small and marginal

In the backdrop of the ongoing farm stir on Delhi's borders, the Uttar Pradesh government will launch a massive farmers’ outreach programme titled ‘Kisan Kalyan Mission’ from January 6.

The three-week agenda, part of the broader theme of doubling the rural income, will cover all the 400-plus assembly constituencies spanning 75 districts of the state.

There are an estimated 23 million farmers’ households in UP, of which more than 21 million or 90 per cent are small and marginal farmers with fragmented land holdings and subsisting on low farm income.

The average size of land holdings in UP is only 0.73 hectares compared