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Her intervention with ITC adopted a gathering Income Minister Krishna Byre Gowda and Agriculture Minister N Cheluvarayaswamy had along with her in Delhi on Thursday.
She has requested Puri to additionally take into account different measures that may assist the state’s farmers, the FM mentioned in a put up on social media platform X.
Sitharaman added that she had defined the initiatives the Centre was taking over the topic throughout her dialogue with the ministers.
Karnataka has declared 224 out of its 236 taluks as drought hit.
Commenting on Sitharaman chatting with the ITC Chairman, Gowda advised ET that the federal government procurement was the one technique to shield and encourage farmers for main millets like ragi, jowar and bajra (pearl millet). Demand pull from the personal sector might assist with different minor millets.
With the 12 months 2023 declared because the Worldwide 12 months of Millets by the UN, ITC can be pursuing Mission Millets to convey millets into the mainstream by aiming to coach customers and empower farmers.
The Centre has additionally been offering millets/coarse grains (Sri Anna) to states at a sponsored worth of Re 1 per kg for preparation of supplementary meals below the wheat-based vitamin programme (WBNP) and offering them to pregnant girls, lactating moms and youngsters beneath six years of age. Sri Anna is thought to have excessive nutrient content material and helps deal with anaemia and different micro-nutrient deficiencies widespread amongst girls and youngsters.
At their assembly with the FM in Delhi on Thursday, the 2 Karnataka ministers had requested her to take an early resolution on the State’s memorandum searching for drought aid. The income minister urged her to launch funds from the Nationwide Catastrophe Reduction Fund (NDRF) early, highlighting the urgency attributable to prevailing farmers’ misery. “Well timed cost of help to farmers would partly relieve their misery,” Gowda advised ET, quickly after the assembly.
He has additionally requested her to contemplate the info the federal government submitted on the numbers of small and marginal farmers. The obtainable information with the Union Authorities, he added, underestimated the dimensions of the small & marginal farmers.
The federal government, the minister mentioned, had positioned Aadhar-lined alternate information units to substantiate that 70% of farmers in Karnataka have been small and marginal in nature.
The CM advised the media in Mysuru, final week, that the federal government has sought Rs 17,900 crore in the direction of drought aid. The Central Drought Research Group, he mentioned, had not given a report even after a month and the Centre had additionally not responded to the federal government’s request.
