LUCKNOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday assured a delegation of farmers from different states under the Consortium of Indian Farmers Association (CIFA) that the state government will take necessary decisions, as and when required, for the welfare of farmers.
Talking to the farmers' delegation at his residence, the chief minister said that the UP government is serious on use of advanced technology, attracting investments, ensuring proper marketing and providing remunerative prices to farmers for their crops.
Yadav said that the government will take timely and necessary decisions on encouraging modern agriculture production technology and enable UP to offer better facilities to its farmers.
"The UP government is considering liberal policies for the benefit of cane growing farmers of the state and also to enable the cane farmers and the sugar industry to grow together and contribute to state's all-round development," the CM said.
He also said that through introduction of better technology, recycling of residual wastes from crushing, ethanol and the power generation, efforts would be made to benefit the farmers and also to generate new employment opportunities in this sector. He further added that in the next two years, the government would make all efforts to produce electricity from the sugar mills and would try to ensure that this power generation benefits the needs of the rural areas.
Yadav also assured the farmer leaders that suggestions made in the three memoranda handed over to him would be studied on a priority basis and decision would be taken to benefit farmers to the best possible extent.
The inter-state delegation of CIFA suggested setting up of a UP State Agriculture Commission, increasing investment in agriculture and use of bio-technology to counter diseases and pests, cultivating better variety fruits and vegetables, better storage facilities for longer shelf life of food grains, introducing specific crops for waterlogged and water deficit areas, ensuring quality seeds, saving the nutrients of crops during storage and transportation etc.
The delegation was led by CIFA president Satnam Singh Behru from Punjab.