“Someday, when youngsters dirty their hands in the fields with help of the department’s schemes and say that they are lakhpatis or crorepatis, that is the time we can say we have succeeded in our motives,” said Agriculture Minister Ramesh Tawadkar, adding, “We need to reinstate trust amongst the farmers that they will prosper if they get into agriculture.”
Fisheries Minister Avertano Furtado promised Navelim’s agriculturists that he would initiate procurement of machinery and funds for agriculture development.
“Agriculturists are warned not to keep their lands fallow. If they do so, their lands will be full of vegetation and soon be classified as private forests,” said Director of Agriculture Orlando Rodrigues.
