PM Narendra Modi Urges Farmers to Use Scientific Methods to Enhance Production

Turning to pulses, he said India has to import these because of shortfall in production and noted that a special package has been given to farmers engaged in cultivation of pulses.

"The production of pulses in the country is very low and I urge farmers that if they have five acres of farming land, use four acres for other crops but cultivate pulses on at least one acre," Mr Modi said.

High production would help in reducing pulses import and availability of the commodity to poor people of the country, the Prime Minister said.

Mr Modi also emphasised on the need to focus on enhancing food grain production by adopting scientific methods.

"Research is important in the agriculture sector. And this cannot happen only in one place... We have to see how can we make our agriculture more scientific and increase productivity and solutions are there for these issues," Mr Modi said.
     
He said the condition of the agriculture sector was not good in India as it was left on farmers' fate. So, while farmers world over have made progress, in India they are still lagging behind because of this attitude, the Prime Minister said.

"Unless we make a comprehensive integrated plan for all the things including fishery, dairy production, bee keeping and honey production, we would not be able to change the economic situation of villages and lives of farmers," he said, adding "That is why the central government is taking steps to make agriculture modern and scientific."

He said the "issue of concern" is how to increase the per hectare production. "It's not that we do not have solutions or we cannot have solutions. Through government policies, through training, resources should be provided and we can make agriculture modern and scient

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