Need to revise farm scheme in proportion to inflation: Dhankar
Shimla: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday called upon the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to revise the current Rs 6,000 payment under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to account for inflation.
"If the indirect financial support being given to the agriculture sector is routed directly to farmer families then, based on my assessment, and that assessment comes after study — where they now get Rs 6,000 annually, they will end up receiving Rs 30,000 a year," said Dhankhar, while addressing the students at Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in Solan.
He said the path to a developed India went only one way and that was through the farmer's field.
"And that will happen only when you hold the farmer's hand," Dhankhar said, adding that farmers were not only "annadata (providers of food)", "but also bhagya vidhata (shapers of our destiny)".
While focusing on the direct subsidies' benefits, the Vice-President said if the fertiliser subsidy was given directly to the farmer, the farmer would decide whether he wanted to buy that fertiliser or raise livestock and use cow dung manure instead.
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"The farmer will think — should I do organic farming, natural farming? The farmer will make that decision himself," he said.
Boys and girls from the farming community in the rural areas ust be trained to become entrepreneurs and agri-entrepreneurs, Dhankhar added. Citing an example of the United States, he noted that the average income of farming families there was higher than that of average households because govt support went directly to the farmers. TNN
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