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Published : Oct 13, 2020, 1:22 pm IST
Updated : Oct 13, 2020, 1:22 pm IST
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government's 'historic' farm reforms will create opportunities to take farmers

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government's 'historic' farm reforms will create opportunities to take farmers to entrepreneurship and added his regime is focused on increasing their income.

Terming the farm reforms as historic, the prime minister said, "Today opportunities are being created to take farming and farmers from the role of annadata (food provider) to entrepreneurship."

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Narendra ModiNarendra ModiReferring to high milk, sugar, and wheat production in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Punjab, Modi said such models of local enterprise will take the country forward.

He said there was a time after Independence when the country did not have sufficient food stock.

"The government’s priority then was to increase food production. So the entire focus was on increasing production. Farmers toiled hard to achieve the objective," Modi said.

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Narendra ModiNarendra Modi"But governments and policies did not pay attention towards profitability of farmers while being concerned about increasing productivity.

"People forgot about income for farmers. But for the first time, this thinking has been changed," he said and listed steps the Centre has taken for the welfare of farmers.

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