Pune | Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said that the prime agenda of both centre and state government should be to make agriculture sustainable and profitable.
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While speaking at the concluding song of the national consultation on ‘Making Agriculture Sustainable and Profitable’ under the Swarajya to Surajya series, Venakaiah Naidu said that time has come for a sharper focus on positive bias towards farmers.
“I feel that this should be at the top on the agenda of the government, at the centre, at the states – making agriculture viable and sustainable. This is concerned with the national security. Without food security there is no national security,” said Naidu.
He further added that “One of the new challenges in the agricultural sector is the problem of plenty. We have become self-sufficient in food grains. However, this has not translated into higher income for farmers. Unless agriculture is made profitable, we cannot attract more people, especially youth, to take up farming.”
Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis and former agriculture minister Sharad Pawar among others were present on the first day of the program.
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