The country is implementing the world’s largest food-based safety net programmes to ensure food security and nutrition, Ram Nath Thakur, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, has said.
Along with the launch of Krishi Nivesh portal, the Minister will confer AIF Excellence Awards to the top-performing Banks and States under various categories in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.
Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan planted saplings at the IARI Campus, PUSA, on Thursday as part of the "Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam" (Plant4Mother) campaign.
As part of the Centre's campaign to empower women in rural areas, 810 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) have been registered with 100 per cent women members
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday informed the Parliament that the Centre was promoting holistic development of horticulture through regionally differentiated programmes like the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture.
Sudhakar Singh earlier pointed out corruption in the agriculture department. He publicly said that the corruption was taking place from lower to the higher level officers. "All of them are thieves," he had said.
The minister said a nodal officer should be appointed to monitor the fodder coming from other states.
Dalal urged the farmers to use organic DAP fertiliser and said that the farmers will get fair prices of crops and vegetables sown using organic DAP fertiliser.
India is also assisting third-world countries by giving technical and scientific assistance to increase productivity in their countries to ensure global food security, the Minister said in his UN address.
He directed the department to make timely arrangements for wheat procurement and also to provide basic facilities at the procurement centers so that the farmers visiting the center do not face any kind of inconvenience.
