In order to explore modern technology in agriculture sector, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate ‘Vibrant Gujarat Global Agriculture Summit’ on Monday. More than 9,000 farmers from across the country are expected to attend the world-class event.
The upcoming summit is aimed at bringing international standard of farming techniques, technologies, innovations, machineries and the knowledge of the field to the State’s farmers. The summit will take place for two days, September 9-10. On this occasion, a mega exhibition is planned where over 200 companies from 15 countries will showcase their expertise and knowledge in different domain of the agriculture sector.
On Sunday, Modi also inaugurated an exhibition on agriculture at the State capital.A Kisan Panchayat will be held and around 4,000 farmers from the State and about 5,000 farmers from other States are expected to participate in the summit. Apart from sessions and discussions on different subject areas, the summit will host country seminars from Israel, Netherlands and Denmark.
Gujarat has taken a lead by this initiative for the all-round agriculture development of the country. The Gujarat Government had taken initiative of “lab to land”, to achieve success in the field of agriculture, connecting its agriculture universities with farmlands. The State Government’s annual event for farmers “Krushi Mahotsava” reaps hefty dividends for the farmers.
Gujarat has pioneered the initiative of soil health-card, which enable farmers to go for certain crops after fulfilling the required nutrients in the soil and in turn harvest a bumper crop. All these efforts have made sure that Gujarat’s Agriculture growth remains in double digit to what it was minus two few years down the line.
According to the State Government figures Gujarat’s annual agriculture income has crossed `1,00,000 crore as compared to `9,000 crore recorded in last one decade. From 1991, sowing area of 106 lakh hectares and agriculture produce of 108 lakh metric tonnes, which was increased to 1.8 lakh hectares and 155 lakh metric tonnes respectively.