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National Conference of State Agriculture-Horticulture Ministers in Bangalore

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Due to the Corona crisis, the National Conference of Agriculture and Horticulture Ministers of the states has been organized in Bangalore after two years. The two-day conference was inaugurated on July 14, 2022, in the hospitality of Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Health and Family Welfare and Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri Basavaraj Bommai.

Important Facts:

• Important in the direction of ensuring the development of agriculture and farmers in the country, this conference has been organized by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare under the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi.

• In the inaugural function, Shri Tomar said that the Central and State Governments are doing all possible work together in the field of agriculture, yet in view of the challenges before agriculture, it is the responsibility of all of us to solve them, formulate policies for them and implement it properly. important responsibility.

• Our country is the largest democracy, where there is diversity of ideological, linguistic, geographical and climate, but here is the strength of India. There is a need to consider how it can be used in the interest of the states and the country in the context of agriculture.

• Agriculture is a very sensitive sector which is connected to crores of farmers. How the Centre-State together can bring a change in the lives of small farmers sitting in the villages, for this, work should be done without any greed.

• We have dependence on the import of fertilizers in the country and a subsidy of about 2.5 lakh crore rupees is being given annually by the central government in the interest of farmers, so that the burden of rising prices in foreign countries does not fall on our farmers, but this situation has to end somewhere. needed.

• Now in the field of fertilizer also we need to be self-reliant, Make in India.

• The role of the states in promoting nano fertilisers is important. Due to the hard work of the farmers, the skill of the scientists and the policies of the centre-states, agriculture in the country has developed better and is becoming sustainable.

• The topics of reference in this two-day conference are mainly: -

  • digital agriculture,

  • Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana,

  • National Agricultural Market (e-NAM) and Farmer Producer Organization (FPO),

  • To take the Prime Minister's Kisan Samman Nidhi to saturation,

  • International Year of Nutritious Cereals (2023),

  • Agriculture Infrastructure Fund of Rs 1 lakh crore,

  • promotion of natural farming,

  • New Age Fertilizer and

  • New technologies developed by ICAR.

Subsidy on Fertilizers:

• The subsidy on DAP will be increased to Rs 512 in 2020-21. 2501 for the 2022-23 Kharif season. Has been done.

• DAP price in India is the lowest as compared to other countries of the world.