LUCKNOW, April 8 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said Uttar Pradesh must transform agriculture from "production to productivity, productivity to profitability and profitability to prosperity," asserting that India's vision of becoming a developed and self-reliant nation can be realised only when farmers become prosperous.

Inaugurating the '6th Uttar Pradesh Agricultural Science Congress-2026' here, the chief minister outlined a broad roadmap for modernising the farm sector through the convergence of technology, traditional practices and policy reforms, while calling for agriculture to be made profitable and sustainable rather than merely production-oriented.

"Now the time has come to move beyond the 'lab to land' approach...