New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced on Monday that India’s foodgrain manufacturing has greater through over 106 lakh tonnes to 1,663.91 lakh tonnes in 2024-25, which represents a 6.83 in step with cent build up over the corresponding determine of the former yr.
“In 2023-24, the country’s total foodgrains production was around 15,57.6 lakh tonnes. I am glad to tell you that in 2024-25, it has become 16,63.91 lakh tonnes,” Chouhan stated at a press convention right here. “The production of the rabi crop was 1,600.06 lakh tonnes in 2023-24, now it has increased to 1,645.27 lakh tonnes,” he stated.
The Union Minister stated that his ministry’s imaginative and prescient used to be now not simplest to satisfy the rustic’s personal meals requirement, but in addition to make India the meals basket of the arena. Chouhan additionally gave the decision for “One Nation, One Agriculture and One Team” to make the rustic’s farmers self-reliant and build up their earning on the farmers conference – Krishi Samvaad – at Nagpur on Sunday.
Chouhan stated that all the way through a 15-day marketing campaign from May 29 to June 12, agricultural scientists will talk over with villages to steer farmers on sustainable farming practices and plan for the Kharif season.
With 16,000 agricultural scientists below the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), scientists will talk over with villages as a staff at the side of agricultural extension officials to teach farmers about new seed types and leading edge farming practices. The executive is dedicated to bridging the space between laboratories and farmlands, he added.
He stated the Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry, state Agriculture Ministries, the ICAR, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, and all agricultural institutes must paintings in combination as a staff. If all of the establishments are attached, objectives are set, roadmaps are made, then miracles may also be made in agriculture, he added.
Making every other giant announcement, the minister stated the Centre would arrange a national-level lab in Pune below the Clean Plant Programme. This laboratory will likely be arrange in Pune for analysis at the authentic species of crops.
Emphasising expanding agricultural manufacturing, Chouhan stated that the Clean Plant Programme is being run to verify natural and disease-free nurseries. To build up manufacturing, farmers must perceive the will for excellent high quality seeds, soil checking out and aid in manufacturing prices.