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In today's time, the government and farmers themselves are making various efforts to double their income. Due to this, farmers have started adopting new farming techniques along with traditional farming, and as a result, they are earning good profits. A farmer from Karimnagar in Telangana has also almost doubled his income by adopting similar mixed farming. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also appreciated the efforts and hard work of the farmers of Karimnagar. Also said that you are also a very strong example of possibilities in farming. Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the beneficiaries of the Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra on 18 January 2023 through video conferencing. Thousands of beneficiaries of the Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra from across India have participated in this program. Union Ministers, MPs, MLAs, and local-level representatives were also present in this program.

The annual income of B.tech graduate farmer M Mallikarjuna Reddy.

While talking to Prime Minister Modi, M Mallikarjuna Reddy, a farmer from Karimnagar, Telangana, said that he is doing animal husbandry and cultivating horticulture crops. Krishak Reddy is a B.Tech graduate and before farming, he worked in a software company. The farmer talked about his journey and said that education has helped him become a better farmer. He is following an integrated method, under which he is doing animal husbandry, horticulture, and natural farming. 

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Let us tell you that the special advantage of this method is the regular daily income they get. He also does medicinal farming and is earning income from five sources. Earlier, he used to earn Rs 6 lakh every year by traditional monoculture farming. Also, currently, he is earning Rs 12 lakh every year through the integrated method, which is double his previous income.

Farmer Reddy has also been honored by the Vice President.

Kisan Reddy has been honored and rewarded by many institutions including ICAR and former Vice President Shri Venkaiah Naidu. He is also promoting integrated and natural farming a lot. Besides, they are also providing training to farmers in the surrounding areas. They have availed the benefits of a Soil Health Card, Kisan Credit Card, Drip Irrigation Subsidy, and Crop Insurance. The Prime Minister has asked them to check their interest rates on loans taken from KCC. Because the Central Government and State Government provide interest subsidies.

Launching "PM Kisan AI Chatbot (Kisan E-Mitra)" at Krishi Bhavan by the Union Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, it has been said that it will prove to be very effective for resolving the inconveniences caused to the farmers.

Union Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Chaudhary launched AI Chatbot today, which is part of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. The inauguration of AI Chatbot is an important step in making the PM-Kisan Yojana more effective and giving a quick, clear and correct answer to the farmers to their questions.

During this time, Minister of State Kailash Chaudhary has said that this important step to connect the agriculture sector with technology is going to bring widespread changes in the lives of farmers. The Minister of State for Agriculture said that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has called for promoting the use of technology under good rule. The action taken today will be successful in this. The technique of cultivation through drones has the effect, which has attracted young people towards agriculture. This is the reason why new enterprises are starting in India's agriculture sector.

What has Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said

The Union Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has asked the state officials to train farmers to use AI Chatbot. Keep proper monitoring and solve the shortcoming in the initial stages with immediate effect. He laid special emphasis on connecting this exercise with weather, crop loss, soil situation, bank payment etc.

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AI Chatbot will be available in 22 languages soon

The purpose of starting AI Chatbot in the PM-farmer grievance management system is to give farmers a smooth and simple platform. AI Chatbot will help farmers to get their application status, payment details, ineligible status and other plan-related updates in the first phase of their development. AI Chatbot has been integrated with a language in the PM-Kisan Mobile app, completing the linguistic and regional diversity of PM-farmer beneficiaries. Actually, currently the chatbot is present in six languages, including English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya and Tamil Shammilit. Soon it will be available in 22 languages of the country.

Under the Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana the central government has taken a big decision to double this monetary amount. Earlier farmers used to be given 6000 rupees yearly. Let's who can avail this benefit. 

The central government has decided to make a major change in pm Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. Under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana to help the farmers financially a sum of 6000 yearly will be given to farmers. But recently the central government has increased this amount to 12000 rupees for Rajasthan. On the 20th November 2023 in the Hanuman Nagar of Rajasthan Prime Minister Modi said during one of his election campaigns that “In Rajasthan BJP has decided to buy crops on MSP. And bonuses will be provided to farmers.”

How much money will be given in the Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana

Rajasthan has been in political heated environment recently because the vidhan sabha elections are in the near future. Because of this PM Modi went on a tour to Rajasthan and made various announcements for farmers. PM Modi said that Congress has led farmers into a vicious cycle of debt. He added that Congress has to answer about the lakhs of hectares of cotton crop wasted. And he said that people who have robbed farmers will not roam around freely. Due to these factors the produce in Rajasthan will be bought on MSP. Along with this bonus will also be provided. Under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana the monetary amount is also increased to 12000.

Crores of Rupees are being spent by the government to make fertilizer cheaper.

In the Rajasthan election campen PM Modi also said that for helping the farmers his government will always be ready. He said that to make fertilizer cheaper for every farmer the government is spending crores of rupees. Also so that the farmer gets cheap and good quality fertilizer without having to search for it. He also mentioned that worldwide one sac of urea costs around 3000 rupees but in India 1 sac of urea cost less than 300 rupees for the farmers.

Ethanol manufacturers have written to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to increase the procurement price of ethanol made from cereals and maize. Ethanol is being prepared especially from damaged grains and maize. In India, ethanol is produced from two sources. One is wheat and the other is rice.

Demand for increase in purchase price of ethanol 

According to ethanol manufacturers, the procurement price of ethanol from cereals (rice) should be Rs 69.54 per litre and that of maize should be Rs 76.80 per litre. This will ensure continuous supply in the ethanol supply year 2023-24 starting from the month of November.

In 2022-23, the procurement price of ethanol made from damaged grains was fixed at Rs 64 per litre and that of maize at Rs 66.07 per litre. The ethanol manufacturers have demanded an increase in the procurement price after the central government did not announce the purchase price of ethanol produced from sugarcane. It is usually announced in early November. On the other hand, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has not maintained the supply of surplus rice.

GEMA demands fixation of feedstock prices 

The Grains Ethanol Manufacturers Association (GEMA) has urged the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and the Petroleum Minister, Shri Hardeep Puri to fix the cost price based on the cost of feedstock (damaged grains and maize) available in the open market in today's time.

How much ethanol has been provided to the oil marketing companies? 

In the ethanol supply year 2023-24, 2.9 billion litres of grain-based ethanol has been made available to OMCs. The share of damaged foodgrains was 54%, FCI subsidised supply was 15% and maize was 31%. Oil Marketing Companies have floated tender for supply of 8.25 billion litres of ethanol to achieve the target of 15% blending ethanol in ethanol supply year 2023-24. Of this, 2.9 billion litres of ethanol is supplied from grain-based sources. The remaining supply is from sugarcane-based molasses.

The manufacturers of grain based ethanol have said that the price of sugarcane based ethanol can be fixed for the entire year. The reason for this is that sugarcane prices remain stable. However, grain-based ethanol prices are determined on a daily basis. Many times due to supply and demand are also determined on the basis of hours.

Prime minister Modi recently initiated the Drone Didi Yojna. PM Modi had a conversation with beneficiaries of Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra through video conferencing. 

There are numerous schemes being launched by the government in favour of farmers. Along with this, the government is also working towards increasing women's contribution to agricultural sectors. During today's Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra, prime minister Narendra Modi talked to the beneficiaries of Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra. During the same, the Prime minister inaugurated a women farmer drone centre.

Under the Drone Didi Yojna, at a budget expense of 1261 crores, 15 thousand drones were distributed to women.

PM Modi: New expectations have arisen for natural justice-social justice values.

According to PM Modi, new expectations have arisen for natural justice-social justice values for understanding and providing rights to the needs of farmers by the government. Along with this, the feeling of ignorance has come to an end in crores of people. The PM says, by the help of self help groups, the campaign of making women self dependent will get strengthened with the help of the Drone Didi Yojna. It will avail new ways of income. It will let farmers avail modern technology like drones at minimum price and with which time,medicine and fertilisers will also be conserved.

What did Agricultural Minister Narendra Singh Tomar stated regarding availing drones to women 

Along with this, agricultural minister Narendra Singh Tomar stated that women will be provided with 15 thousand drones. Actually, by the Drone Didi, women empowerment will also increase and they will be more self dependent, their livelihood will also improve by employment creation. Along with this, use of drones in farming will lead to increased farming outputs.

The Drone Didi Yojna is an amazing initiative to improve the livelihood and increase the ability of Self Help Groups related women. They said, when pesticides, urea and DAP are spreaded in farms, it has many side effects on the body. Apart from this, during this, few places get more spreaded and few remain untouched which creates imbalance. However, when the use of drones will increase, the side effects on the body will decrease. Whereas, the use of Fertiliser will also decrease to a appreciable extent.