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    Farm legislations true democratization of Indian Agriculture: Dr Jitendra

  • Date : 03 October, 2020

    Maintaining that recent Farm legislation passed by the Parliament were aimed at democratization of Indian Agriculture since they provided freedom of choice to the farming community, Union Minister of State in PMO with independent charge of North Eastern States, Dr Jitendra Singh yesterday accused the opposition parties of misleading the farmers for their vested political interests.

    Talking to reporters here today on the recent Farm legislation passed by the Parliament on the empowerment of farmers along with MP Lok Sabha, Jugal Kishore Sharma, MP Rajya Sabha, Shamsher Singh Manhas, KK Sharma, Advisor to Lt. Governor, Navin K Choudhary, Principal Secretary, Department of Agriculture Production, J&K, Dr Jitendra Singh highlighted various salient features of the Farm legislation and termed it a revolutionary step of Narendra Modi Government to make farmers of the country self-reliant and masters of their fate to rid them from the highhandedness of the middlemen and agents.

    Terming the farm legislation true democratization of farm sector, Dr Jitendra Singh said it is democratically and Constitutionally a very valid decision and pooh-poohed those who are misleading the farming community on this account.

    “When everything is online why can’t farmers sell their produce online and why will they remain tied with Mandi”?, he asked and assured them that Modi Government will not take any decision which will be inimical to the interests of the farmers who are the backbone of the country.

    Dr Jitendra Singh said farmers should no longer be called farmers now but they are the agriculture entrepreneurs and technocrats and they deserve to be provided with the same facility which the other technocrats in the country are provided. The Modi Government through the new legislation has kept all means and ways open for the farmer is selling his produce, he said, adding if a farmer is interested in the old system the Government has no problem in that and he is free to do so.

    Rejecting the opposition allegations and canards spread by the vested interests that this Government supports Ambanis, the Union Minister said during the last six years this Government increased the Minimum Support Price (MSP) continuously.

    Dr Jitendra Singh said during UPA rule from 2009 to 2014 wheat procurement by Government was 1395 lakh Mts which increased to 1680 lakh mts during NDA rule from 2014 to 2019. This means there was three lakh MTs increase in procurement during this period which shows the commitment of the Modi Government for the welfare of farmers.

    He said even the procurement was done during COVID period to boost the morale of farmers. The paddy procurement which during UPA rule from 2009 to 2014 was 2493 lakh mts was increased to 2887 mts during NDA rule from 2014 to 2019, he added.

    He said that these legislations were progressive and would provide impetus to Indian agriculture to complete at a global stage while protecting farmers interests and improving farm incomes. Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the greatest emphasis on the welfare and upliftment of the poor and backward sections.

    While mentioning about the benefits of the recent farm legislations, Dr Singh said that the producers i.e. the farming community deserved better opportunities and freedom of choice. Since the present system had certain restrictions in terms of marketing the farm produce, the recent legislations would provide wide variety of competitive choices for the producers for marketing.

    He said that to make Indian agriculture competitive, revolutionary and transformational reforms were needed that would result in increased productivity. He further said that recent legislations would also help create employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in agriculture and allied sectors thereby increasing farm incomes on which more than half of Indian population is dependent.
 















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