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State BJP Farmers’ Wing president G.K. Nagarajan connected Friday said that an consciousness league aimed astatine improving farmers’ livelihood would beryllium held successful Erode connected January 5.
Addressing the media, helium said Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan would enactment successful the event. The Minister would interact with farmers and traders astatine the turmeric auction market, perceive to their grievances and sojourn turmeric cultivation fields. He would besides clasp discussions with farmers and those engaged successful allied cultivation activities and deliberate connected assorted issues affecting the sector.
Mr. Nagarajan said the Minister’s sojourn was not election-related but intended to measure wherefore farmers continued to look problems contempt their skills and experience. He added that the Minister would conscionable astir 2,000 women to sermon self-reliance, challenges successful starting enterprises and slope recognition schemes, and would besides instrumentality portion successful a Pongal solemnisation centred connected millet-based foods.
The league would beryllium attended by BJP State president Nainar Nagendran, erstwhile State president K. Annamalai, National Mahila Morcha president and MLA Vanathi Srinivasan, actor-politician Khushbu and different elder leaders. An accumulation with 125 stalls showcasing agriculture, earthy farming, value-added cultivation products, banks, NABARD and concern promotion agencies would beryllium inaugurated connected January 4, helium added.
