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Kolkata, Sept. 29 Public investment in agriculture is necessary to boost productivity in order to deal with the rising demand for land for industrialisation, Mr Sitaram Yechury, Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said here on Monday.

Addressing an interactive session organised by the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce he said, “There would be an increasingly greater demand for land for industrialisation (in the future) and to deal with it, productivity of land and labour has to go up.” Public investment in different sectors, including agriculture, would help boost productivity, he said. On acquisition of agricultural land for industrialisation in West Bengal, he said it was difficult to avoid this process as proportion of sown area was higher than the national average.

Regarding the uncertainty over Tata Motor’s project in Singur, Mr Yechury said an all-party meeting would be convened on Tuesday to find out ways to resolve the issue.

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