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Welfare of farmers top priority, PM assures Tikait
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Saturday, 15 September, 2007, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Sabyasachi Samajdar, New Delhi
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The government was committed to ensuring livelihood security for the farming community and food security for all, said Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Receiving a memorandum from a delegation of the Bharatiya Kisan Union and the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement led by Mahendra Singh Tikait, the Prime Minister said that the welfare of the farmers was the top most priority for the UPA government.
The Prime Minister told the delegation that in the past three years the UPA government has ensured remunerative prices and has effected significant increase in the minimum support price, reversing the neglect of the farming community and the policy of minimal increase in MSP under the previous NDA government. The Prime Minister reiterated the government's commitment to offering insurance to farmers against risk and said that the government was considering a loan insurance scheme to mitigate risk for indebted farmers.
The Prime Minister also assured the farmers' delegation that the government is committed to increased investment in agricultural research so that the productivity of indigenous seeds and the productivity of land and water utilisation can be increased. The Prime Minister also stated that the government would safeguard the interests of Indian farmers in the WTO negotiations and would not accept any obligations that would hurt the farmers' interests.
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