Madhya Pradesh outshines other states in agricultural production under CM Chouhan
Will provide full support to ensure farmers form the bedrock of Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh: CM Chouhan
MP government leaves no stone unturned to empower its farmer community
- Disbursal of the largest corpus of funds for crop insurance amounting to more than ₹ 7,600 crore, via direct benefit transfer to 49 lakh farmers of Madhya Pradesh
- Farmers are the ones who provide food for us, give us energy, and paint a beautiful future for us: CM Chouhan
- Madhya Pradesh ranks first in the production of spice crops, third in vegetables, fourth in flowers and fifth in fruit production
- MP has bagged top spot in the production of pulses and oilseeds, and second in the production of wheat, lentils, maize, and sesame
Bhopal, 12 February 2022: The Department of Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh, organized a historic event to disburse the biggest corpus of funds for crop insurance amount ing to more than ₹ 7,600 crore via direct benefit transfer in the accounts of more than 49 lakh farmers of Mad hya Pradesh. The event also marked the growth and development of the agriculture sector under the progres sive leadership of Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan for the past 15 years.
Speaking at the occasion, CM Chouhan congratulated the farmers for their relentless hard work and dedication to turn the vision of Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh into reality. CM Chouhan said, “You are the palanhaar of Mad hya Pradesh. You are the ones who provide food for us, give us energy, and paint a beautiful future for us. The pr evious governments have neither recognized your contributions to the development of Madhya Pradesh, nor ha ve they addressed your concerns to bring relief. But in the last 15 years, we have launched policies focusing on the development and welfare of our farmer brothers and sisters. It is only when the farmers prosper does a state or a nation prosper. I relentlessly worked towards making this a reality today.”
Elucidating further on the steps taken by the state government to bring the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana to the doorstep of the farmers, CM Chouhan said “We have successfully registered 4 crore 43 lakh 61 thousand 570 farmers in the last five years, after the launch of the scheme. We have seamlessly disbur sed an aggregate claim amount of ₹ 16 thousand 750 crore 87 lakh to 73 lakh 69 thousand 614 farmers Rabi 2019-20. This is nothing short of a success of 93.41 per cent.”
The state government is carrying out an end-to-end computerizat ion of crop insurance. The process of insurance unit determination is completely online by integrating with the land records. It is also using remote sensing tech nology to estimate the average yield from the field. The process of registration has been linked with the Aadhar card, so that an area can be insured only once, eliminating the situation of duplication.
Due to strong political will and efficient implementation of central and state government policies, the Madhya Pradesh Government has focused on a five-fold strategy for agricultural development, which includes: reduction in the cost of agriculture, increase in production and productivity, agricultural diversification, better product va lue and disaster management in the agriculture sector. As a result, the efforts undertaken by the state govern me nt in the last 15 years, under the leadership of CM Chouhan, have led to an increase in agricultural producti on from 2 crore 38 lakh MT, in 2004-05, to 6 crore 69 MT in 2020-2021.
The occasion was graced by the presence of Union Agriculture Minister, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Agriculture Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Kamal Patel, Betul MP Durgadas Uike, MLA Dr. Yogesh Pandarkar, BJP District President Aditya Shukla Babla, BJP State Vice President Shri Pankaj Joshi, Kisan Morcha President Darshan Mo rya, and ACS Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of MP, Shri Ajit Kesari, along with other dignitaries.
