Bihar farmers to get benefits of farm bills: Minister
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Bihar farmers to get benefits of farm bills: Minister
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PATNA: Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Tuesday that the Centre has created Infrastructure Development Fund of Rs1 lakh crore to provide technological support to the farmers. As part of the same, Rs10,000 crore would be spent on food processing units, he added. Addressing the farmers at BJP office here through virtual medium from Delhi, Tomar said the agriculture reforms Bills passed by Parliament would help in orienting the farmers to adopt global agricultural practices based on new technologies, which would increase their income. Accordingly, the farmers of Bihar would also be benefited by the new trend, he added. Tomar said the M S Swaminathan Commission had made the recommendations in this regard, but the UPA government at the Centre could not implement them. He said Bihar was the first state in the country to abolish the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act to open the market to its farmers for selling their produce. BJP state president Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal said the PM Modi government was committed to increasing the farmers’ income.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-09-30
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Patna