The Union Minister for Agriculture, Ajit Singh, has called upon the farming community in the country not to depend on the minimum support price announced from time to time by the government.
He also asked them to do away with the middlemen system. This they can do by following their own marketing strategies and also fixing prices of their produce, without yielding to the pressures of the middlemen.
However, here the union minister saw and stressed the need for fine-tuning the agricultural policies at centre and state levels to remove the hardships being felt by the farming community.
Ajit Singh was addressing a meeting while participating as the chief guest at the Choudhary Charan Singh Birth Centenary Celebrations organised by the Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University.
Speaking of the raw deal being meted out to the farmers across the country, the union agriculture minister pointed out that while the world over farmers were increasingly being given farm loans at much low rates, in India on the contrary since independence farmers had been getting loans at high interest rates.
Despite this major hurdle, the ryots in the country had been weathering many a challenge and made the country self-sufficient and there was abundant agricultural produce in the country. Only exports need to be encouraged to provide good prices for the farmers, he noted.
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