Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, ''The welfare of the farmers and overall development of the agriculture sector has been the top priority of the Government of India.”
Emphasising the need to generate sustainable incomes for farmers, the vice president called for more focus on food processing and value addition.
R G Agarwal, Chair, FICCI Committee on Crop Protection and Chairman, Dhanuka Group, said high Goods and Service Tax on crop protection chemicals especially hurts small and marginal farmers by increasing their input cost and prompting them to use these essential ingredients in sub-optimal quantities to the detriment of farm output and their own financial health.
The CM lashed out at the Centre for undermining the contribution of the farmers and the soldiers, pointing out that they had clearly forgotten the Kisan in the 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan' slogans that had reverberated through the country when Punjab’s farmers made India self-sufficient.
Industry body PHD Chamber said on Sunday it expects further reforms in agriculture sector and rationalisation of direct taxes in the forthcoming interim Budget.
The promise was of 10 million new jobs every year and, ironically, the labour ministry’s own data has exposed the vacuousness of the promise, with virtually nothing by way of “real-time data on job creation” that the government claims.
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan hit out at Tamil Nadu governments – current and earlier ones – for neglecting villages, the farm…
