Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that empowerment
of small farmers is central to his government's vision. He said
empowerment of small farmers will greatly help in ridding Indian
agriculture of many problems.
Mr Modi was addressing a webinar on effective implementation of Budget
provisions regarding Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare through a video
conference. Experts from Agriculture, Dairy, Fisheries sector,
stakeholders from the Public, Private & Cooperative sector and
Representatives from Banks funding the rural economy participated in the
webinar.
Prime Minister highlighted some of the provisions for Agriculture in
this Union Budget like increasing the Agriculture Credit target to 16
lakh 50 thousand crore rupees with priority to Animal husbandry, Dairy
and Fisheries sector.
Mr Modi stressed the need for Post Harvest Revolution or Food Processing
Revolution and Value Addition in the 21st century, amidst
ever-increasing agricultural production. He said it would have been very
good for the country if this work would have been done two-three
decades ago.
The Prime Minister strongly emphasized on developing processing in every
agriculture-related sector such as foodgrains, vegetables, fruits,
fisheries etc. He said, for this, it is critical that farmers should
have storage facilities near their villages.
Mr Modi called for the improvement of the system of taking the product
from the fields to processing units and emphasized that hand-holding of
these units be done by the Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). He
stressed the need for expanding the options for the country’s farmers to
sell their produce.
He
said, we have to expand our country’s agriculture sector into the
global market for processed food. Mr Modi said, we must increase the
number of Agro-Industries Clusters near the village so that the people
of the village can get employment related to farming in the village
itself.
Prime Minister said Organic Clusters and Export clusters will also play a
major role in this. He envisioned that we have to move towards a
scenario where agro-based products move from the village to the cities
and industrial products reach villages from cities.
He also emphasized the need to explore
ways to leverage the One District, One Product scheme to take our
products to the global markets.
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