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New Delhi: Union Agriculture and Farmers ( farmers) Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in thecourse of dialogue with farmers and farmer organizations, held discussions with members of farmer organizations in New Delhi on Monday and said that serving them is like worshipping God for him. The Union Minister said, “I am very happy to meet the farmers and serving them is like worshipping God for me.” He said, “Today I am fortunate to have a very meaningful discussion with the head of the Kisan Mahapanchayat, Rampal Singh, and many farmer representatives from different states of his union. We have discussed many things.” He further said that during the discussion with the farmers, issues related to the state governments and the central government have come up, we will consider them honestly and seriously. As Agriculture Minister, I will make every effort to ensure that farmers move forward and the condition of the agriculture sector improves. Chauhan said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is farmer friendly and communicating with farmers helps a lot in understanding their problems.
Work should be done for farmers
Kisan Mahapanchayat President Rampal Singh said that work should be done for farmers. Farmers have raised many meaningful issues. Many things are happening under the leadership of the Prime Minister. Many decisions have been taken continuously in recent times. Farmers’ interests, such as flexibility in the Agriculture Development Scheme, provision has been made that this scheme should work only for the state for which it is suitable, many such things have been worked on and many things need to be worked on.
Said a big thing for farmers’ crop insurance
He said, “Farmers have drawn attention to many things including the crop insurance scheme. We will try to solve these problems with all seriousness.” Responding to media questions, he said that there is no such compulsion in taking crop insurance claim; it should be voluntary between loanee and non-loanee farmers. It has been seen many times that if it is not voluntary then it is also brought under this scheme, etc. many things have been discussed.
