Twelfth Five Year Plan aims to produce 25 mn tonnes of food grains
The Dollar Business Bureau The reforms and initiatives taken by the Government of India towards improvement of Agriculture & allied sectors will help in achieving a 25 million tonne-target of food grain production by the end of 12th Five Year Plan period. This was stated by M K Kundariya, Minister of State for Agriculture, on Wednesday, during his address at the ‘National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif Campaign-2015’, organised in New Delhi. While lauding the steps being taken by the Government of India through National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, the Minister stressed on need for making the farming sector a remunerative profession. In this regard, he called for reduced cost of production along with an increase in crop productivity, ...
