BHOPAL: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said here on Thursday that his government is working on a five-point agenda to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resolve to double the farmers’ income.
This includes increasing agriculture production, reducing the input cost in agriculture, ensuring remunerative prices of their crops to farmers, compensating their losses and motivating them towards varied farming. He was addressing a function organised at Minto Hall to dedicate to the public 50 "seed villages" in the state under the programmes being organised to mark the 20-years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in power.
He further said that providing irrigation facilities is the fundamental necessity to increase the agriculture production and the state government aims to irrigate the entire farming land in the state and it is the reason why irrigation potential in MP has gone up to 42 lakh hectares. It's also necessary that farmers get fertilisers and seeds on time and if the situation arises, they should also be able to get interest-free loans. His government is sensitive towards all this and actively working to do it on the ground.
The dream of a strong and prosperous farmer is being turned into reality in MP under the Prime Minister's guidance, he said. The farmers are benefiting from schemes like "PM Samman Nidhi" , " PM Kisan Mandhan", `PM Crop Insurance Scheme and increase in minimum support prices of crops, he added. Union agriculture minister Narendra Tomar and state agriculture minister Kamal Patel were also present on the occasion.
