LUCKNOW: Addressing
farmers
in Ganeshra and Bakalpur in
Vrindavan
, state
power
minister
Shrikant Sharma said that agricultural reforms act is the law to make farmers economically independent. Parties, which are losing political existence, are engaged in misleading farmers, but they should understand that no one can harm farmers in the regime of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
“Parties aren’t able to accept Modi’s efforts of doubling farmers’ income. They are the same people who claimed to generate gold from potato machines and favouring middlemen. Opposition is spreading confusion among other farmers,” he said, and added, “The MSP and APMC mandi system will always be there. The PM has already clarified that new laws will lead to more investment in agriculture. The farming agreement will only be of crop yields and not of farming land. The land remains with farmers, the agreement and the land have nothing to do. The farmers have been provided adequate protection under the new laws. Sale, lease or mortgage of farmers’ land is completely prohibited. Effective dispute resolution mechanism has also been provided with a clear time-frame for resolution of dispute. In case of a natural disaster, farmers will get full money.”
He added, “The production of
foodgrains
has increased rapidly and MSP too has been increased. There was a record jump of 4,962 percent in pulses. In all, 76.85 lakh metric tonnes of pulses were purchased in the Modi government in 2014-19 which was 1.52 lakh metric tonnes in 2009-14.”
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