Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen said that the secret behind the constant Agriculture Development Rate being 20 per cent is the agriculture oriented policies of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Bisen said that easy availability of irrigation, power and other agriculture resources for the farmer has resulted in bumper rise in agricultural production in the Madhya Pradesh. Bisen was telling about the main reason behind high agriculture development rate in the state at the concluding ceremony of the Agriculture leadership Summit at Surajkund in Faridabad, Haryana. Bisen was invited to talk on the topic at the summit. Agriculture Minister Bisen was honoured also on the occasion.
Bisen said that every farmer in the state is being given a Soil Health Card. A permanent soil testing laboratory is being established in every development block which will have the facility of testing micro nutrients. He said that in the last ten years, there has been a rise of 36 lakh hectare irrigation area. Farmers are obtaining constant power supply. Along with encouraging agriculture mechanization, seeds, fertilisers and other input materials are being provided to the farmers.
Bisen said that this is the reason why the state’s agriculture development rate is constant at over 20 per cent.
The Agriculture Minister said that Madhya Pradesh is the first state where maximum number of farmers has been linked to the Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme.
In the year 2022, the first roadmap was made to double the income of farmers. The government has always stood with the farmers in time of crisis. Assistance of over Rs 10,000 crore has been provided to the farmers in the last ten years. He said that today there is need to pay special attention to both quality and quantity of foodgrain.