The Central Government has a dream that every corner of farmers’ fields should get irrigation water only then production could be increased,” said Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh while addressing the two-days workshop organised by Indian Council of Agricultural Research at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) in Karnal on Friday.
“The previous Governments used to spend about 40 per cent on irrigation purposes despite of this, 65 per cent of land has shortage of water. The Centre would spend about Rs568 crore to distribute Soil Health Cards to 14.50 crore farmers of the country. This work would be completed by the next three years. A sum of Rs86 crore has already been approved this year for these cards,” he added.