12/12/2020
👉The Union government should allow other sectors, especially private and cooperative, in agricultural extension services to overcome some of the ills plaguing the sector, according to P Chengal Reddy, chief adviser, Confederation of Indian Farmers Association (CIFA).
👉Indian agriculture sector is suffering due to low productivity, harvest especially of perishable goods going waste and at least 60 per cent of the area under cultivation being rain-fed.
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