Uttar Pradesh: Uttar Pradesh Maintains First Position in Food and Sugarcane Production | Varanasi News

Varanasi: The joint divisional kharif productiveness seminar-2024 of Varanasi, Prayagraj and Vindhyachal divisions was organized at Padma Vibhushan Girija Devi Cultural Advanced, Chowkaghat on Monday.Addressing the seminar, the UP agriculture minister Surya Pratap Shahi stated that such seminars are organized to make sure meals availability to the growing inhabitants and make additional motion plans to enhance the financial situation of the farmers. He stated that for the final seven years, Uttar Pradesh has maintained the primary place in meals manufacturing and in sugarcane. He stated that as we speak the state has surplus meals reserves. In the present day, Uttar Pradesh ranks first in meals, milk, oilseeds and sugarcane. The manufacturing of oilseeds has elevated by 105%.The minister stated that 2.7 crore farmers are registered within the state, and all of the farmers are being benefited from Kisan Samman Nidhi. Final 12 months, over Rs 73,000 crore has been despatched to the accounts of farmers by means of Samman Nidhi within the state. “We’re additionally offering subsidies to the farmers from time-to-time,” he stated, including that the farmers is not going to have to fret about fertilizers and seeds as a result of there may be adequate inventory within the state. He stated that the export of agri merchandise from the state is repeatedly growing. Items value Rs 56,570 crore have been exported from the state within the final 4 years. For the primary time within the historical past of 77 years, Dussehri mango from Lucknow has been exported to America and gram flour from Gorakhpur has been exported to Singapore, that are presenting the altering image of Uttar Pradesh, he stated.“We nonetheless need to import pulses from overseas and oilseeds value about 1.25 lakh crores are imported from different nations. If we enhance the manufacturing of pulses and oilseeds, we are able to cease this cash from going out and we are able to additionally fulfill our wants,” stated the minister.The programme was additionally addressed by principal secretary of Dairy Improvement and Animal Husbandry, Ravindra Kumar, commissioner rural growth Gaurishankar Priyadarshi, Varanasi divisional commissioner Kaushal Raj Sharma, and Vindhyachal divisional commissioner Muthu Kumar Swami.

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