Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has reiterated the government’s commitment to empower farmers through innovation, investment, and market access to make them key drivers of a self-reliant and developed India.
PM Modi was speaking after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of multiple projects and schemes worth over Rs 42,000 crore in the agriculture and allied sectors in New Delhi rcently. The Prime Minister also launched two major schemes in the agriculture sector, PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana and Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses.
He said the two schemes are designed to usher in a new era of self-reliance, rural empowerment, and agricultural innovation. He highlighted the need to achieve rapid development and reforms in the country’s agricultural system. PM Modi said that the Government has introduced comprehensive reforms from seed to market, in the interest of the country’s farmers. He said these reforms were structural interventions aimed at making Indian agriculture modern, sustainable, and resilient. Highlighting the Government’s achievements, PM Modi said the country’s agricultural exports have nearly doubled while the food-grains production has increased by around 90 million metric tonnes in the past eleven years.
He said six new fertiliser companies have been set up in the country, while 25 crore soil health cards have been distributed to farmers in the last 11 years PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana has been launched with an outlay of Rs 24 ,000 crore with the objective of enhancing agricultural productivity, increasing adoption of crop diversification and sustainable agriculture practices and improving irrigation facilities. The Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses has been launched with an outlay of Rs 11440 crore
