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Agriculture can be revolutionised through FPO: Kailash Choudhary

Chandigarh, May 17 (UNI) Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary on Tuesday said that a revolution in agriculture can be brought through the Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO).
The farmer himself has to set up his own unit by marketing, sorting, grading etc his crop to increase his income, he said while addressing the representatives of CBBOs and FPOs present in the regional conference organized for Cluster Based Business Organizations (CBBOs) and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in Panchkula on Tuesday.
Choudhary said that today in this meeting we have provided a platform to the representatives of CBBO and FPO to solve the problems among themselves so that the farmers can generate new ideas and their income can be increased by adding technology. He said that apart from FPO representatives and CBBO representatives from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, farmers and representatives have also joined today’s meeting virtually.
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