Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan with Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh at an exhibition in the course of the inauguration of the 96th Indian Council of Agricultural Analysis (ICAR) Basis and Know-how Day, in New Delhi, on July 16, 2024.
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Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has requested the scientific neighborhood to achieve out to farmers and assist them to extend manufacturing utilizing science and expertise. He was addressing the agriculture and veterinary scientists at a perform right here on Tuesday to mark the 96th basis day of Indian Council of Agricultural Analysis.
Mr. Chouhan stated a majority of the nation’s farmers personal little or no land and there’s a have to create mannequin farms for them. Citing his expertise in Madhya Pradesh, the place agriculture manufacturing elevated when he was Chief Minister, he stated if agriculture is diversified, it’s doable to extend the revenue of farmers in farming. “Work needs to be carried out to extend manufacturing in animal husbandry, fish farming, wheat manufacturing, pulses and oilseeds,” he stated including that bringing self-reliance in manufacturing of pulses and edible oil is without doubt one of the essential focus of the federal government. “If that’s achieved we might not need to import palm oil from overseas,” he stated.
He requested the scientists to evaluate how lots of the 6,000 types of crops developed by the ICAR have reached the fields from the labs. “We have now to work on how a lot the farmer and the scientist are linked. Until science is used virtually, the farmer is not going to profit. It needs to be analysed how a lot the farmer and the Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVK) are linked,” he stated.
Mr. Chouhan stated that if the ICAR sends not less than two scientists to the 731 KVKs within the nation, and if these scientists research and analysis from there, the farmers will get the good thing about it.
“Immediately, we should always take a pledge that we’ll make India self-reliant in pulses and oilseeds too. The federal government will give full help for this,” he stated. “All scientists ought to go to the fields for one month in a yr and train the farmers. All agricultural universities ought to work for the farmers. Agricultural universities, scientists and fields ought to be linked collectively,” he stated.
Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, who additionally addressed the gathering, stated if the nation doesn’t take note of the livestock and fisheries sectors that are contributing 35% to the GDP, then the sectors could fall down. “If we take note of it, it may contribute greater than 50% to the GDP. We have now reached the second place on the earth in fisheries. Immediately we export items price ₹63,000 crore. If we promote livestock and fisheries, there will probably be a whole lot of profit,” he stated.
He stated the Animal Husbandry Division is engaged within the eradication of Foot and Mouth Illness (FMD). “Work is being carried out to cut back the unfold of FMD in lots of states, work on methods to free livestock from FMD in India,” he stated. To handle the difficulty of stray cattle, he stated work ought to be carried out on categorized semen and likewise on In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) expertise. “ICAR ought to work to convey IVF at a less expensive price. This may have two advantages – one, there will probably be freedom from stray animals on the roads and milk manufacturing will even improve,” he stated.
