Farmers will get new markets, options and more benefits of technology: PM Modi on farm reforms

Amid the continued standoff between the Centre and the farmers who’re agitating towards the three new farm legal guidelines for the final 16 days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday championed the continued reforms and stated these will open new avenues in entrance of the farmers. “We had seen walls between the agriculture sector and other areas associated with it – be it agriculture infrastructure, food processing, storage or cold chain.We don’t want walls. We want bridged. All walls and obstacles are being removed now. After reforms, farmers will get new markets, options and more benefits of technology. This in turn will bring in more investment,” Modi stated delivering the keynote tackle on the 93rd Annual General Meeting of FICCI.

“The cold storage infrastructure will be modernised. This will result in more investments in the agriculture sector. Farmers will be benefitted the most out of it,” Modi stated. His feedback come at a time when hundreds of protesters have laid siege to Delhi demanding an instantaneous withdrawal of the farm legal guidelines as they concern the brand new legal guidelines will corporatise farming and can profit corporates at the price of farmers.

Batting for the involvement of all stakeholders in all sectors, PM Modi stated, “If the government is confident, then it does not get threatened to make space for other players. This has been happening in India for the last six years.”

This will not be the primary time after the huge agitation of the farmers started that PM Modi touched the problem of farm legal guidelines. In his final Mann ki Baat speech, PM Modi had stated, “Parliament has recently passed farm reform laws after rigorous brainstorming. These reforms have not only broken shackles of farmers but have also given new rights and opportunities to them.”

The theme of FICCI’s annual conference this yr is ‘Inspired India’, the Prime Minister’s Office’s (PMO) stated on Friday. PM Modi additionally launched the FICCI Annual Expo 2020. This will present a chance to exhibitors from throughout the globe to showcase their merchandise and advance their enterprise prospects, the PMO had added.

Over the three days of the conference, greater than 10,000 delegates from internationally and Union ministers Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, S Jaishankar and Ravi Shankar Prasad will tackle the convention.