The much awaited mega event ‘Global Agriculture and Food Summit’ started with a ray of hope for the farmers of the State at Khelgaon in Ranchi on Thursday.  A large number of enthusiastic and progressive farmers have come to join the programme from across the State.

According to the department’s notifications around 10,000 farmers have joined the mega event to learn innovative ideas which will increase their earnings as the government’s objective to organize the event is doubling the income of the farmers.

Applauding the mega event a farmer from Karanwakala village of Garhwa Block in Garhwa, Pramod Tiwari said this event a big opportunity for the farmers of Jharkhand because a large numbers of experts have joined the programme to disseminate their knowledge through this event. As agriculture in Jharkhand is getting less importance than mining and industry the event has giving ample opportunity to farmers of the state to increase their income, he added.

Tiwary further said that he is cultivating flowers and he has developed a flower by hybrid method which is not available in any part of the world even he shown the picture the flower. He said that such kind of event will also provide opportunity to farmers to show their products.

A group of farmers from Pundugiri village of Tamar Block in Ranchi District said the program will give opportunity convey our message to higher authorities. One of them Harikrishna Badaik said that there is immense opportunity in Jharkhand to bring itself equivalent to Punjab and other agricultural developed states.  “As agriculture in the State is completely dependent on monsoon, irrigation for other crops is difficult, so we need better irrigation facility to increase our productions,” he added.

A fish farmer from Barhi in Hajaribagh District Mohammad Jasin said as such kinds of programme will give us opportunity to meet with various kinds of people like experts, buyers and other farmers.

While praising the effort of the government a farmer from Ramgarh district Rajiv Pratap Raj said, this is good effort taken by Jharkhand government which will boost morale of farmers and it will provide opportunity for self employment as agriculture is oldest business and it has so many areas of earning.

Raj further said, at present time agriculture is facing shortages of labourers. “So I have come here to see equipments which can solve our problems. The program also provides us opportunity to market our products. Earlier we sold our products in nearby market but now we have learned that how to get right price of our products,” he added.