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Agri-Biz & Commodities
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Events Pawar calls State Agri Ministers' meet on Dec 22 Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Dec.12 Union Minister for Agriculture Mr Sharad Pawar has convened a meeting of State Agriculture Ministers on December 22 to discuss the five-part report submitted by the National Commission on Farmers. The meeting will consider the recommendations and finalise a course of action to address the agrarian problems. Dr M.S. Swaminathan, who headed the commission, told newspersons that the panel had submitted the report in October suggesting various measures to improve the lot of the farming community. He was in the city to take part in the inaugural of the four-day international conference on `Indigenous vegetables and legumes' being held at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). At a news conference on the sidelines, he listed six broad areas where special attention was needed. "There should be a universal public distribution system instead of the targeted one in existence. This could cost Rs 35,000 crore a year involving 50 million tonnes of food." He also said that nutrition intervention programmes need to be reformed in order to focus on the individual. He stressed the need for community management of food and implementation of rural employment guarantee scheme with a stress on giving food as wages.
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