Rattled by soaring food prices and falling farm productivity, the FM has announced a slew of measures to boost the farm sector and vowed to deepen the process of attracting more private investment in agriculture and agro-processing.

He announced an increase in bank lending for farm sector as well as interest subsidy to farmers who pay short-term crop loans on time.

Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. True to the adage, the innovative farmers of Gudibande have taken challenges to seek a solution to redress their evergreen drought problem bogging their taluk. And they have become successful in it.

Gudibande taluk, of late, has earned the notorious tag of being permanently listed among the drought-prone areas of the State.

JAIPUR: Sajha Manch

The State Bio Technology department director Dr JMS Rana inaugurated a two-day training programme on organic farming at the Navdanya biodiversity conservation farm in Ramgarh on Tuesday.

Addressing the workshop participants, Rana said prosperity of farmers is the basis of public health while adding that farmers are true scientists.

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