Mehdi Arif Hussain
Special Award- Agricultural Revolution in Balipara County - Mehdi Arif Hussain. The Award was presented by Dr. Kalpana Sarathy, Prof Tata Institute of Social Sciences
As the ADO of Balipara, Md. Arif Hussain has shown keen interest in providing help and reaching out to 1209 households of these villages. He wishes to extend his departments expertise in the field of integrated farming models, combining different types of agricultural activities such as fishery to generate livelihoods of the people. He has envisioned Balipara to be ‘High Tech’ with the availability of technologies and services in the form of Farm Machinery Bank or Green House for farmers.