Nitin Gadkari, road and transport minister, in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Elections 2019: Farm Crisis Immense, Don’t Claim To Have Fixed Everything, Says Nitin Gadkari
The crisis in India’s agriculture sector is of a magnitude that can’t be fixed in the five years that the Narendra Modi government has been in power, said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.
A global glut in commodities has led to surplus production in every major crop, and the government has attempted to find solutions via higher minimum support prices, farm loan waivers, and irrigation programs, Gadkari told BloombergQuint’s Sanjay Pugalia.
We have done a lot, but the problem is immense.Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister
On the prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Gadkari asserted that Narendra Modi will be prime minister again, and that the BJP will exceed its 2014 tally of 282 seats.
Watch the interview here: