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Antyodaya aims at bringing smile on the face of the last man standing in the row and Sahkar Bharti’s mission is to accomplish this objective, said former Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh addressing the valedictory session of the three-day 7th National Conclave of Sahkar Bharati on Sunday.
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BJP is going to launch a special campaign in Uttar Pradesh regarding the new farm laws.
The world today is celebrating the “Women’s Day”. The Indian government is always keen to facilitate women on each and every opportunity. The government has allocated more than 30% of funds under various schemes for women in agriculture mainstream. Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh informed on Thursday.
“last four and half years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has taken several steps and started various schemes to transform Indian agriculture”, said Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh at the 57th convocation ceremony of Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) today.
In order to facilitate in achieving the Central government’s goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022 a mission has been launched named the Meghalaya Milk Mission which will help to promote milk business in the state on Sunday.
Modi Government has decided to declare 2018 as National Year of Millets to boost the cultivation of millets like ragi and jowar on a mission mode to achieve nutritional security.
Inaugurating the Krishi Unnati Mela 2018, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said, government is committed to the welfare of farmers and strengthening the rural livelihood. He said India is moving towards Digital and Mobile revolution and even far-flung villages have access to mobile phones.
e-NAM is one of the major and important flagship schemes of the Government of India with the objective of providing competitive and remunerative price to farmers for their produce through an online competitive bidding process. This was said by Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday after launching six new features to make e-NAM more users friendly.
After elaborating the roadmap to enhance farmer’s income and productivity, the Department of agriculture initiating six new features in e-NAM app which is completely dedicated for farmers. These features would help the farmers get an overall idea of the bidding and trading taking place and also to make it more user-friendly. It will enable the farmers to have a feasible transaction and making it available in regional languages is an added advantage.
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that India is leading in the global coconut production and productivity. In the year 2016-17, coconut products worth of Rs.2084 crore were exported.
India continues to be the largest milk producer in the world since two decades. Notably, milk production which was around 17-22 million tonnes in the 1960s, increased to 165.4 million tonnes during 2016-17. Particularly, it has increased by 20.12% during 2016-17 in comparison to 2013-14 while the income of farmers increased by 23.77% during 2014-17 as compared to 2011-14.
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said research and development projects in horticulture crops have yielded encouraging results, as a result, the production of horticulture crops have been more than food grains irrespective of adverse climatic conditions. After China, India is the second largest producer of horticultural crops and fruits.
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that India is second largest fish producer in the world. Overall fish production has increased from 0.75 million tonne of 1950-51 to 11.41 million tonne in 2016-17. Besides, this sector provides employment and livelihood support to more than 15 million people of in the country.
India and Italy on Wednesday signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in Agriculture and Phytosanitary issues. Notably, the MoU was signed between Indian Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and Italian Minister for Agriculture H.E Maurizio Martina that will provide a good framework for cooperation in this field.
For planning, promoting and financing Agricultural products, the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) was set up under the Agricultural Ministry which has performed excellently during the current financial year 2017-18. NCDC also registered a record by surpassing its annual target in first 6 months.
Union Agriculture Minister, Radha Mohan Singh said the objective of the agriculture development is to double the Farmers’ Income by 2022. With limited resources and fixed area of land availability, it cannot be achieved without the support of technology, which should be low cost, farmer friendly and scalable.
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that considering its importance, the Government has accorded top priority to the agriculture sector and Finance Ministry announced Rs 62,376 crore fund allocation for the sector in 2017-18.
With the goal of doubling the income of the farmers by 2022, Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) had organised ceremonies in 562 districts of the country between August 19 to September 11, 2017, in which 47,08,47 farmers and agricultural workers have participated.
