New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing farmers in Madhya Pradesh through a video link. Farmers in atleast 23,000 villages in the state are expected to be listening to the address, which comes amid a massive agitations near Delhi against three central laws.
The government released an eight-page letter yesterday reiterating its commitment to resolve the deadlock on farm laws. In the letter, which was released after a party meeting that was attended by its key leaders — Union minister Amit Shah, his cabinet colleagues Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitharaman, Mr Tomar and party chief JP Nadda, the government spoke of keeping communication open with the farmers, but insisted that it would not entertain any opposition agenda.
Here are the highlights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech:
- Storage facilities and warehousing are very important in the farm sector. No matter how much effort a farmer puts in, if storage is not proper, it is a big loss. The loss is not just for the farmers, but for the entire nation.
- So, setting up food processing centres, warehouses, cold storages, dry storages, are important. We need to act on this now. We appeal to all to come forward and help set this up in a time-bound and fast manner. We cannot dump all the responsibility on the farmers. They already do a lot.
- Our government has been doing a lot to ensure farmers progress, their incomes grow.
These days there is a lot of talk about the new farm laws. These laws have not been brought n overnight. There has been a lot of thought that has gone into it.
