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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) asked the authorities to organise tiny groups of Members of Parliament (MPs) to little them connected the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Yojana truthful that that lawmakers summation a amended knowing of the harvest security programme.
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The proposition came during Question Hour erstwhile Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was responding to supplementary questions. Mr. Birla projected that the authorities signifier groups of MPs and explicate the provisions and functioning of the strategy successful detail. The Minister instantly agreed to comply with the Speaker’s direction.
The harvest security programme provides farmers with affordable security sum against losses caused by earthy calamities and different risks affecting crops.
In different supplementary, Mr. Chouhan said the authorities has besides begun enactment connected promoting integrated farming models to payment farmers, peculiarly those with tiny landholdings, arsenic fragmented onshore ownership makes it indispensable to follow models that harvester antithetic cultivation activities.
Integrated farming involves combining crops, livestock and different farm-based activities to amended productivity arsenic good arsenic income for farmers.
In effect to different question, the Minister said the authorities is besides encouraging alternate crops for baccy growers, adding that crops specified arsenic sugarcane and others are being promoted arsenic substitutes. He further noted that respective crops are being procured from farmers astatine the Minimum Support Price (MSP) arsenic portion of the government’s efforts to enactment cultivation incomes.
