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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday (March 6, 2026) asked farmers to leverage India's divers climatic conditions and absorption connected scaling up the harvest of high-value crops to alteration the country's cultivation products to efficaciously vie successful planetary markets.
Addressing a post-Budget webinar connected 'Agriculture and Rural Transformation', Mr. Modi said steps request to beryllium taken to beforehand each aspects of "quality, branding and standards" of Indian agriculture produce. Agri experts, manufacture and farmers volition person to travel unneurotic to execute this goal, helium said.
"Today the markets of the satellite are opening, and planetary request is changing... It is indispensable to person much treatment connected making our agriculture export-oriented. We person a divers climate, and we indispensable instrumentality afloat vantage of it. We are affluent successful agro-climatic zones," helium said successful his 3rd post-Budget webinar.
The Budget for 2026-27 has besides focussed connected high-value agriculture, including cashew, cocoa, sandalwood, Mr. Modi said, adding the National Mission connected Edible Oil and Pulses and the National Mission connected Natural Farming are each strengthening the agriculture sector.
"If we standard up the high-value agri sector, lone past we tin person our agriculture assemblage to a globally-competitive sector," Modi said.
The Prime Minister said that contiguous the satellite is becoming much conscious astir health, with a beardown absorption connected holistic healthcare and integrated food.
"We indispensable spot greater accent connected chemical-free and earthy farming. Natural farming creates a road to scope markets crossed the world," helium said.
Stressing that agriculture is besides a strategical pillar of India's semipermanent improvement journey, helium said that the authorities has continuously strengthened the agriculture sector.
"Nearly 10 crore farmers person received much than ₹4 lakh crore done the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. This year's Union Budget gives a beardown propulsion to agriculture and agrarian transformation," Mr. Modi added.
