Union Minister Nitin Gadkari made a big announcement regarding farmers on Friday and told his plan regarding farmers in future. While talking to the media in Nagpur, Nitin Gadkari said that he is preparing a smart village. Farmers will get a house in Smart Village for Rs 5 lakh. farmers will have their own plot, their own bungalow, and will also get free electricity and water at home for lifetime.
On the suicide of farmers in Vidarbha, Gadkari said that about 5000 sugarcane producing farmers started sugarcane production. The position of the farmer has become much stronger. Farmers have become debt free, work is going on to increase the production of oranges. He said that work is also going on on how to increase the production of orange, soybean and cotton in one acre.
Gadkari said that work is being done on how to produce 15 to 20 quintals of soybean in one acre and what kind of seeds are required. Work is also being done on how cotton can be grown per acre up to 25 quintals. Nitin Gadkari further said that there are some shortcomings, some mistakes, some land problems, some water shortage, by solving these problems, we will make the farmers prosperous by bringing new technology. Will make farmers capable.