Patna: Bihar aims to fulfil chief minister Nitish Kumar's promise - of providing at least one edible item from the state to every plate in the country - by the end of 2022, the last year of the state's third agricultural roadmap.

President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to release the roadmap here on November 9.

Agriculture minister Prem Kumar on Tuesday said that the goal of the state would be realised at any cost. He was interacting with media to share the outlines of the roadmap.

The one item per plate happens to be one of the main goals of the roadmap. Promotion of organic farming, nutrition security, integrated farming and ushering in a "rainbow revolution" - as opposed to just a green revolution - are the other major goals of the plan.

The first agricultural roadmap had been unveiled in 2008 and it culminated in the year 2012 when the second roadmap was released. The second roadmap period ended in March this year.

The release of the third roadmap will see around 1,000 farmers participating, of which there more than 300 would be women.

This would be in addition to the 400 students enrolled with different agriculture universities of the state and 3,844 state government employees from a dozen departments that have been given different tasks for realising the goals of the latest roadmap. These departments would spend Rs 1.54 lakh crore over the next five years to complete the tasks given to them.

Sharing details of some of the important works which the agriculture department will do, minister Prem Kumar said promotion of organic farming in areas along both the banks of thje Ganga was part of the state government's plan to check flow of harmful chemicals into the holy river.

He said the department would also work to promote horticulture in a big way, and one variety each has been identified for all the 38 districts of the state and special schemes will be run to promote the farming of the identified item.

The roadmap also aims to increase the total irrigated area in the state to 37 lakh hectares from the existing 18 lakh hectares. Farming is done in a little over 57 lakh hectares of land in Bihar.

Even the tasks for the environment and forest department have been assigned keeping the roadmap goals in mind. One of them is planting 1.5 million saplings along the banks of rivers in the state.