Government’s priority is to make agriculture profitable says Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, participated in the Interactive Session held at ICAR-NAARM.
During the session, Shekhawat accentuated that the government’s priority is for making the agriculture profitable by reducing the input cost and increasing the remunerative prices for enhancing the farmers’ income. The Minister strongly said that by listening to the stakeholders will help in enhancing the government’s functioning and decision making process.
Minister also had an interactive meeting with the farmers, farmer associations, and scientists of all the ICAR Hyderabad Institutes, officials, students, start-ups and State Agri-Allied Sector Universities.
He highlighted that the market infrastructure, farmer centric crop insurance, Minimum Support Price, organic farming including input cost, organic produce market, drip irrigation subsidy considering the climatic factors, promotion of integrated farming system, inclusion of agriculture in MNREGA, FPO promotion, village agri-clinics and PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, are the issues that prove helpful in making the agriculture to be profitable. Besides this, they are also helpful to intensify the awareness among the farmers about the various government schemes.
The Minister also released a NAARM Hindi publication titled “AgRIM” during the occasion.
In his welcome address, Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director, ICAR-NAARM underlined the various Central Governments’ schemes and briefed about their benefits for the farming community.
The Director also urged the participants for providing the suggestions on the programme and new programmes too for enhancing the farmers’ income.
The session ended with vote of thanks offered by Dr. S.K. Soam, Joint Director, ICAR-NAARM.
More than 350 farmers, scientists, officers, faculty and students participated in the programme.