Curtains drawn on three-day Agritech meet in Rajasthan

The 3-day Global Rajasthan Agritech Meet 2016 (GRAM 2016) concluded in euphoria as the farmers, academicians, researchers, policy makers and industry stakeholders lauded the event in terms of having achieved its prime objective of sharing knowledge with farmers.

 At the valedictory session, the Chief Guest, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh said that GRAM will prove to be a milestone by way of connecting farmers with technology.

He said that while other states were organising investors’ meets – Rajasthan has taken the unique and the first-of-its-kind initiative in organising this international level Agritech Meet.

 The Union Government, said Singh, stood committed for the farmers and was doing its utmost to double their income, as per the Prime Ministers’ mission, and connecting the farmers with global technology. Talking about the initiative of Soil Health Management, he said as many as 23 lakh soil health cards have been issued in the state in the past two years.

 On the occasion, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje said that GRAM was indeed a historic festival and has in it the origins of an ‘Agriculture Revolution’. The event became a success by the active participation of agri-scientists, specialists, entrepreneurs and ambassadors of different countries.

She expressed happiness that the mega fair had seen participation of Israel, Iran, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Australia, UK, Japan, Nigeria, Serbia and World Bank.

The Chief Minister said that looking at the success of GRAM 2016 – such agritech meets will be organised at the divisional level in the state.

She said, looking at the geographical challenges of the topography of the state, it was imperative for the farmer to adopt innovative methods of farming. GRAM has taught the farmer how to produce crops which will involve less of land, less of water and will also take less time.