Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy has said no one in the society would live better than a farmer, if he gets a remunerative price to the produce.
As part of a tour to Maharashtra to study the cropping patterns, diversification, agri-produce (food processing) based industries, a delegation led by Mr. Reddy visited Jalgaon area and visited banana plantations, onion seed farms, a micro-irrigation park and others in the area besides interacting with progressive farmers.
He complimented the crop diversification being practised in Jalgaon area, where banana plantations are spread in about 1.25 lakh acres. He felt the need for dividing the farmlands in the country into crop colonies based on soil types and local weather conditions so that farmers could take up crops suitable to those areas as also those having good demand in the market.
