Delivering his address as Chief Guest at the Inaugural event of Amrut Mahotsav and Alumni Meet of College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad, he said, “Distress of farmers calls for urgent national attention. Farmers need economic security. We cannot afford in this nation, that is rising and the rise is unstoppable and the rise is as never before, to put concerns of farmers on back burner.''
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has ordered a probe after his government faced flak for taking a farmer, arrested in connection with the attack on government officials, to hospital in handcuffs and shackles after he suffered a heart attack.
He said the lab-to-land gap between science and farmers has to be reduced. ''We are continuously making efforts to ensure timely delivery of correct information from scientists to farmers. Krishi Vigyan Kendra is also making many efforts in this direction,'' he added.
He said that another team has also been sent to Nellore region of Andhra Pradesh to nab those who indulged in violence.
In a post on 'X', he said appropriate legal proceedings will be done against those responsible in this matter.
A 31-year-old Sikh farmer, who died while trying to save an eight-year-old girl in California in 2020, has been bestowed with the Carnegie Hero Award, North America’s highest honor for civilian heroism.
Interacting with beneficiaries of mini and hi-tech dairies of the Animal Husbandry Department through audio conferencing as part of the ‘CM ki Vishesh Charcha’ programme today, the CM said dairy schemes are being run by the state government to enable the small farmers and youth in rural areas to start their own ventures.
The humiliation meted out to farmers by police who treat them as petty criminals even as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao claims that his government was farmer-friendly drew widespread condemnation from farmers’ organisations and the Opposition Congress.
Apart from focusing on increasing the income of the farmers, the Uttar Pradesh government also plans to establish them as 'entrepreneurs'. This will not only increase their income but also provide more employment opportunities to the youth.
The RKPA has also implored the government to not get swayed by the anti-farmers lobby and have requested the Chief Ministers of all 28 states and 9 Administrators to ensure execution of the reform in their respective states
