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Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan connected Monday accused the DMK authorities of neglecting agriculture and failing to guarantee just prices for farmers’ produce.
Speaking astatine the party’s farmers’ consciousness league organised by its Farmers’ Wing successful Erode, helium said agriculture is simply a State subject, but asserted that the Centre would spell to immoderate grade to support farmers’ interests. Claiming that nary large dam had been constructed successful Tamil Nadu during 70 years of DMK rule, helium said, “there is nary water, nary dams, but liquor flows similar a river. The authorities is moving connected liquor revenue,” and called for a alteration successful the State government.
Raising interest implicit the increasing cause menace, Mr. Chouhan said children were being severely affected and stressed the request to decision the DMK for the payment of aboriginal generations.
He said the fig of beneficiaries nether the PM-KISAN strategy had declined from 40 lakh to 20 lakh and alleged that the DMK authorities failed to respond to the Centre’s petition for beneficiary lists. He claimed that contempt repeated letters to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin seeking regularisation of onshore records and issuance of patta and chitta, determination was nary reply, arsenic the authorities authorities feared Central funds reaching farmers directly. Though ₹6,000 crore had been released nether the Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, respective women beneficiaries complained that they had not received the assistance, helium said.
Referring to the sweetener sector, Mr. Chouhan said that contempt bully sugarcane accumulation successful the State, respective sweetener mills had been closed. He announced that discussions would beryllium held with the State authorities and that a peculiar ICAR squad would sojourn the portion to interact with farmers and resoluteness their issues.
Highlighting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s payment initiatives, helium said India had moved from 11th to 5th spot successful the planetary system and would go the world’s largest system by 2047. “Serving farmers is equivalent to worship. Protecting tiny and marginal farmers is Modi’s dream,” helium said.
He besides said loopholes successful earlier agrarian employment schemes had been plugged and that each rupee nether the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 would scope workers. Stressing that colony improvement should not beryllium decided from Chennai, helium said gram sabhas indispensable find section improvement works.
MLA C. Saraswathi, State vice-president Khushbu Sundar, Farmers’ Wing president G.K. Nagaraj, territory caput (Erode South) S.M. Senthil, and different enactment functionaries were present.
