I have been told, Wardha central cooperative bank did not distribute Rs 2200 cr to farmers. The sahukars are earning high rates of interest. There is need to make a different system for farmers.
If we can give water to farmers, our farmers can grow gold out of soil. We will join the Ganga till Cauvery, and solve the water shortage problem. In neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, our CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan joined Narmada with Kshipra rivers to solve water problem.
4:40 pm: Modi: I feel pain when a single child falls into a borewell, the entire national media telecasts this, but nobody asks about thousands of farmers who die. Had Vajpayeeji's government stayed, the farmers would not have committed suicide. It was his govt which came with crop insurance scheme to guarantee crops of farmers.
4:36 pm: Modi: Today the Indian farmers are devastated. A small country like Bangladesh is dominating readymade garment exports across the world. And the cotton farmers are being benefitted. And here, the rulers have no vision. I speak of the five F formula, cotton to fibre, fibre to fabric, fabric to fashion, fashion to foreign.
Today the young generation is afraid about going in for farming. If Indian farmers are devastated, this country of 125 crore people cannot be self-reliant in foodgrains.
4:32 pm: Modi: More farmers have died than the number of jawans killed on the front because of the wrong policies of Congress. Shriman Sharadrao, you are the Agriculture Minister. Tell me, two years ago when there was good cotton cultivation, and farmers were getting good prices, Dr Manmohan Singhji, tell us why you suddenly banned cotton exports? For whom? I calculated for Gujarat.
