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Govt must focus on long-term solutions to improve agriculture sector: Venkaiah Naidu
Nov-16-2018

Calling loan waiver and free power supply to the farm sector as mere ‘transitory and populist’ steps, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu has said that the government should focus on long-term solutions such as remunerative price, infrastructure support and cheap credit to improve the agriculture sector. He also called for suitable changes in the laws governing the cooperative sector in view of changed techno-economic and business scenarios to make the cooperative institutions viable and vibrant.

Naidu has stated that since agriculture was becoming unviable, people were moving to urban areas from rural parts. He said “you cannot reverse urbanisation, even if you want to ... Even today, 56 per cent people depend on agriculture.” According to him, the best method of improving agriculture is the strengthening of the cooperative movement. Besides, he noted that this has to be understood by all including the planners, NITI Aayog, political parties, Parliament, people and media.

Vice-President further said that the prime minister promised to double farmers' income by 2022. He noted that this is a noble idea, but it is not simple. He also indicated that the government has raised the minimum support prices (MSPs) of most of the crops. He added that cooperatives can help small and marginal farmers in taking the benefits of higher MSPs.

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