CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav today cautioned farmers about the impending dangers as “India has been trapped by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement”.
Yadav called upon the farmers and agricultural scientists to unitedly face the WTO onslaught. The CM, who was speaking at the centenary celebrations of Chandrashekhar Azad University for Agriculture and Technology, said the developed nations were out to ruin India’s agricultural sector.
The ploy, he said, could easily be seen in the developed nations’ pressure on India to scrap subsidy for farmers. “They want us to scrap subsidy, but developed nations give their own farmers 100-500 percent subsidy. They have trapped India to crush the backbone of our economy,” Yadav said.
“Our farmers are extremely hardworking and we must provide them with the best of facilities,” he said.
He urged scientists to evolve a mechanism that could help farmers to fight the adversities of natural calamity. “The country has progressed but the suffering of farmers remain unchanged. Nearly 60 per cent farmers normally go bankrupt due to famine. This trend can be checked when they get back-up facilities,” he pointed out.
The other big challenge that the farming community faced was rapid urbanisation, the CM said. “It is gradually eating up agricultural land in a big way. Each year farmers are losing agricultural land worth Rs 3000 crore to urbanisation. Farmers must protect their land and should not be driven by monetary gains,” he added.
Recalling the achievements of his government, the CM said growth rate had touched the 5.6% mark as against the dismal 0.1 % when he had taken over reigns of the State. His policies and focus on agriculture was paying rich dividends though the work was far from over. However, he didn’t miss the chance to hit back at critics of state’s law and order scenario. He offered to resign if anyone proved that UP’s law and order scene was not better than Bihar, Maharashtra and Delhi.
{{/usCountry}}Recalling the achievements of his government, the CM said growth rate had touched the 5.6% mark as against the dismal 0.1 % when he had taken over reigns of the State. His policies and focus on agriculture was paying rich dividends though the work was far from over. However, he didn’t miss the chance to hit back at critics of state’s law and order scenario. He offered to resign if anyone proved that UP’s law and order scene was not better than Bihar, Maharashtra and Delhi.
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