Prime Minister: “The State must stand by the farmer to help cope with the problems faced”
The questions asked during the interview had an agricultural bias. In particular, the journalists wanted to know through what specific programs the Government was going to meet the proposed targets.The Prime Minister gave exhaustive answers to all the questions which bore on the price hike, crop deliveries and commodity exports, crop protection against emergencies, supply of irrigation water, use of fertilizers, as well as other issues of topical interest.