Jammu, June 19 -- Beyond Crops, Towards Prosperity
Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Indian agriculture has over the past 12 years entered a completely new era. Earlier, our biggest concern was ensuring that the country did not face a shortage of foodgrains and that hunger could somehow be prevented. Today, Prime Minister Modi's visionary leadership and farmer-centric policies have transformed agriculture from being merely a "sector of production" into an integrated foundation for farmers' prosperity, risk protection, nutritional security, green technology and rural development. For the first time since the Green Revolution, policy focus has shifted from simply asking "how much productio...