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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that his government’s annual spending on agriculture and farmers sector is more than INR 6.5 crore, each farmer is guaranteed interest of around INR 50,000 every year.
This is Moody’s guarantee. Aur maine jo kiya hai, woh bata raha hoon, vaade nahin bata raha hoon (This is Modi’s guarantee. And I’m telling you what I’ve done, not making promises), Modi said, in an apparent dig at Congress polls. ..
Addressing the opening session of the 17th Indian Cooperative Congress, Modi said that before 2014, small and medium farmers were denied government benefits. “You are facing the changes that have come from the policies that have been changed, the decisions that have been made in the last nine years.
Do you remember the farmers’ order before 2014? Farmers used to say they get a little help from the government. Whatever little help was available he used to go to psychics. “Small and medium farmers were deprived of the benefits of government schemes,” he said.
Counter guarantees
The prime minister’s remarks, which have portrayed the benefits of government schemes as ‘guarantees’, come as Congress has made ‘five guarantees’ a main plank of the poll – first in Karnataka and now in Parliament going to the polls this year.
This situation has changed in the past nine years. Today, crores of small farmers get premier Kisan Samman Nedi. No more middlemen, no fake beneficiaries… In the last four years, Rs 2.5 crores were transferred directly in farmers’ bank accounts,” Modi said. In contrast, he said, the total agricultural budget for five years before 2014 was less than 90,000 crores. rupee.
“Farmers are not burdened by the rising prices of fertilizers and chemicals around the world. This has also been guaranteed. This is Modi’s guarantee, given to you by the BJP government at the Centre.
The prime minister asked the co-operatives to become a model of transparency and corruption-free governance, and to help the country become self-reliant in cooking oils. The Prime Minister also referred to the recent PM-PRANAM scheme which aims to spread chemical free agriculture and encourage the use of alternative fertilizers.
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