Ensure remunerative price to farmers
Pratibha Patil, Vice-President and President Hamid Ansari MS Swaminathan, after obtaining the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in public administration, education and management for the year 2006, in New Delhi Monday.
New Delhi: Non-violence for men and farmwomen, the penalty day and night can be expressed in a price and provided opportunities for marketing their products, agricultural, scientific renowned MS Swaminathan. The practice would also increase the production and consumption.
Mr. Swaminathan spoke a ceremony of the event in Rashtrapathi Bhavan yesterday, Monday, where he presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in public administration, education and management for 2006, the president of Pratibha Patil.
Recalling the interest that Lal Bahadur Shastri showed a semi-dwarf, yield varieties of wheat, Mr. Swaminathan said: “While short his tenure as prime minister, he sowed the seeds of green revolution. He spent several hours in April 1965 in our wheat fields and approving the import of a large quantity of seeds of semi-dwarf varieties from Mexico, had been subjected to rigorous testing in our factories for several years. therefore, our farmers have been during the 1964-68 production of an amount greater than that achieved During the year 4000 ”
Dr. Swaminathan, who was a summons, an array of money and a grant of cash-Rs 1 lakh, decided to use cash price of the Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Prakalp, an initiative to help widows Vidharbha, farmers, their lives after the agricultural crisis.
“Thanks to dramatic progress in several areas of science and information technology and biotechnology and aerospace, renewable energy and environmental technologies, from time to time, we now have the means to improve productivity and profitability of agriculture and farm based on the two companies in an environmentally sustainable manner. But if the farm economy and ecology go wrong, then nothing else have the opportunity to turn right onto agriculture. ”
Dr. Swaminathan, the castle of his speech with a quote Emily Dickinson’s poem “If I Can Stop”, paid Tributes year Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri for the respect they have shown in the agricultural sector.
“As Mahatma, identified as farmer in the guestbook of the National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore, 1927, Lal Bahadur Shastri was proud to talk about his skills in the house and gardens and small animals.”
“His concern for hunger, the year the best-fed call to observe quickly once a week to ensure that food is available for those who need it most,” said Dr. Swaminathan.