Farm reforms will help turn farmers into entrepreneurs: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government's 'historic' farm reforms will create opportunities to take farmers to entrepreneurship and ded his regime is focused on increasing ir income.

Modi was speaking after releasing autobiography of former Union Minister Balasaheb Vikhe Patil and renaming Pravara Rural Education Society in Ahmednagar district after Pma Bhushan recipient, via video conferencing.

Terming farm reforms as historic, prime minister said, "Today opportunities are being created to take farming and farmers from role of annata (food provider) to entrepreneurship." Referring to high milk, sugar, and wheat production in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Punjab, Modi said such models of local enterprise will take country forward.

He said re was a time after Independence when country did t have sufficient food stock.

" government's priority n was to increase food production. So entire focus was on increasing production.

Farmers toiled hard to achieve objective," Modi said.

"But governments and policies did t pay attention to profitability of farmers while being concerned about increasing productivity.

"People forgot about income for farmers. But for first time, this thinking has been changed," he said and listed steps Centre has taken for welfare of farmers.

ting that COVID-19 threat still persists, Modi called for observing social distancing rms and maintaining effective personal hygiene. 

(Im: PTI)