Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said on Sunday that youths in the State were adopting agriculture as their professional career which is a very healthy sign.
“Youths in the State are giving up ambition of becoming IAS, IPS and even showing less interest for high salary package private jobs for the sake of making career in farming and agriculture sector in rural areas which is a very welcome sign,’’ Singh remarked while speaking at the inaugural function of the two-day workshop at Indira Gandhi Agriculture University in Raipur.
The workshop was themed on ‘Youth-Farmers Entrepreneurs’ which was attended by dozens of subject experts from across the State. The key personalities who attended the function were former Union Minister Ramesh Bais who is presently the lok Sabha MP from Raipur and Dinesh Kulkarni from Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sangh.
Singh revealed that his government was working on formulating a policy to boost food processing industry in the State which has tremendous potential to generate employment on massive scale. He added that his government was expecting huge investment in food processing sector in coming up years.
Singh who completed 5000 days as the chief minister of Chhattisgarh this month, claimed that the state was the first in the country that had developed a system to procure each and every paddy grain from farmers on support price annually through co-operative societies.Singh said that Chhattisgarh had become self-reliant in high yield producing agriculture seeds which would help the state to double its agriculture output by year 2022. He further added that farmers are adopting modern techniques in agriculture sector even in remote areas such as Dantewada, Bijapur, Surajpur and Jashpur.