KJ Choupal: Awanesh Kalik, Asst. General Manager and In-Charge, Lucknow Branch of AFC India Ltd. Shares His Ideas, Experience with Krishi Jagran

Krishi Jagran has recently started an initiative called “KJ Choupal”, under which they invite eminent personalities every week for discussion on current topics and for future collaborations. On Tuesday, 7 June, Awanesh Kalik, Assistant General Manager and In-Charge, Lucknow Branch, AFC India Limited, visited Krishi Jagran's head office to meet its team.

Kalik was thrilled to meet such a young team working in this field. He congratulated M.C. Dominic for starting Krishi Jagran 25 years ago and for nurturing young brains and expanding their knowledge about agriculture. He interacted with the Krishi Jagran team with great enthusiasm. Kalik told that he wasn't from an agricultural background, however, his curiosity and passion was the reason for his success in the field. He now has over 20 years of experience.

He also stated that India is an agriculture prominent country, yet it lacks to provide farmers with its benefits. He said that the agriculture sector of India never got the priority.

Kalik started a small initiative 10 years ago. In this initiative, he spread awareness among farmers about safe and profitable agricultural practices as well as provided knowledge to them. He shared that back in 1968, he also started an agricultural magazine named “agriculture finance,” but for some reason, he couldn’t keep up with it and had to stop its publication.

He is working parallel with the Jharkhand government to provide business skill training in the agriculture sector. With the help of this program, they provide business skill training to people aged from 7 to 24 years.

Kalik is currently working at Agriculture Finance Corporation which, is a government organization that was established 55 years ago.

The main goal of the organization has been to promote and expand the growth of the agriculture sector. AFC in collaboration with Krishi Jagran will work on the National level to boost the growth of the agriculture sector and farmers.