Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, addressed Sahakar Kisan Sammelan in Gangapur City, Rajasthan, today. On this occasion Speaker of Lok Sabha, Shri Om Birla, Chairman of IFFCO, Shri Dileep Sanghani and several other dignitaries were present.

In his address, Shri Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi fulfilled the decades-old demand of the country's farmers by forming a separate Ministry of Cooperation. He added thatsince becoming the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has been doing many unprecedented works in the country, such as the formation of the separate Ministry of Cooperation and the recent successful landing of our Chandrayaan-3 on the South Pole of the Moon. He said that the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission has brought new energy and confidence to the entire nation as no other country has reached on southern pole so far. Shri Shah said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi gave new momentum and energy to the country's space mission, due to which today India has become the first country to reach the South Pole of the Moon, it is a matter of pride for the whole country.

Union Minister of Cooperation said that the government led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at the Centre has come up with several schemes for the benefit of the farmers through digital means. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is providing Rs.6000 to every farmer of the country. Apart from this, many works have been done for agricultural loans and crop insurance. He said that the agriculture budget of the previous government was about Rs.22000 crores, which Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has increased by 6 times to 125000 crores. He said that earlier, loans worth Rs.7 lakh crores were provided to the farmers, which has been increased to Rs.20 lakh crores by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. Shri Shah said that the production of food grains in the country was 265 million tonnes, which has now reached 323 million tonnes. Wheat procurement was 251 lakh metric tonnes, which Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has increased to 433 lakh metric tonnes. Along with this, the MSP of wheat has been increased from Rs.1400 to Rs.2100 by the government led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The government has increased the MSP of Mustard from Rs.3050 to Rs 5400.

Shri Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has come up with more than 20 schemes to strengthen the Primary Agriculture Credit Society (PACS) in the country. He said that today IFFCO is working to strengthen cooperatives in the country through more than 3500 cooperative societies. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has decided that by creating two lakh new Primary Agriculture Credit Society in the country, PACS will be formed in every panchayat.

Shri Shah said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has formed three new cooperative societies so that the farmers get good seeds, they can export their produce and the farmers doing organic farming can move forward. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has worked as a ‘KisanMitra’ by sending Rs. 6000 through DBT to the bank accounts of farmers across the country.

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