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Under the Digital Agri Mission, if all the farmers, agricultural areas, government schemes and banks are also brought on this platform, then the benefits of the schemes will be easily available, he said
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The union government is working on a digital agri mission so that the farmers can reach the centre, said the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar while addressing the AgriTech summit.
Tomar said that many important schemes are being implemented in this direction so that the challenges of farming can be reduced and the income of the farmers can be increased.
Simultaneously, India is on a journey to become number one in the world in the agriculture sector, he said.
Tomar said, "Agriculture is a very important sector for our country. We have accepted the primacy of agriculture, in this regard, work is being done in the direction of its progress, changes in it, the inclusion of policies, cooperation etc."
There are 86 per cent of small farmers in the country, who have small acreage and cannot invest much, Tomar said.
The government is working to take these farmers forward, because if the balance of these 86 per cent farmers remains low, then neither agriculture nor the country will progress, the minister mentioned.
Keeping this in mind, the government has started the work of creating 10,000 new FPOs. Rs 6865 crore is being spent for this. Of these, 3,000 have become FPOs, he added.
"If small farmers join these FPOs, then the area under cultivation increases and the collective power of the farmers increases. If there is only one type of farming, then production will increase and farmers will be able to get good prices," Tomar stated.
The union minister said that today there is a need to deal with the challenges of the agriculture sector, how technology should be introduced in it, how to increase the availability of private investment and how to create employment opportunities.