Pressure on agriculture increasing: Sahay
In India majority of population depends on agriculture compared to seven per cent in the European Union and four per cent in the USA.
By PTI |
DHANIAKHALI (WB): With seventy per cent of India's population depended on agriculture the pressure on agriculture was increasing, Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay said on Saturday.
In India majority of population depends on agriculture compared to seven per cent in the European Union and four per cent in the USA, said Union Food Processing Minister Sahay speaking at the foundation-laying ceremony of a potato processing plant by the Pailan group here in Hooghly district.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that though West Bengal was the second highest producer of potatoes in the country, only half of the production was consumed in the state and the rest were disposed off in distress sales.
With the coming up of a potato processing plant, farmers would receive the right prices for their produce.
Sahay lauded the Chief Minister for starting the industrialisation of the state.
"We belong to two different political parties and we fight elections, but the way Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is idustrialising Bengal makes us feel proud," Sahay said.
In India majority of population depends on agriculture compared to seven per cent in the European Union and four per cent in the USA, said Union Food Processing Minister Sahay speaking at the foundation-laying ceremony of a potato processing plant by the Pailan group here in Hooghly district.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that though West Bengal was the second highest producer of potatoes in the country, only half of the production was consumed in the state and the rest were disposed off in distress sales.
With the coming up of a potato processing plant, farmers would receive the right prices for their produce.
Sahay lauded the Chief Minister for starting the industrialisation of the state.
"We belong to two different political parties and we fight elections, but the way Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is idustrialising Bengal makes us feel proud," Sahay said.
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Stressing that rapid industrialisation was necessary to generate employment, Bhattacharjee said, the proposed chemical hub would come up at Nayachar, while seven companies would invest Rs 90,000 crore for setting up steel plants in the state.Download
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