Lucknow: The Colonial era turned the farmer from a producer into a consumer, and later the Congress and SP govts committed the sin of turning the same farmer into a debtor, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He said that the artisan who had an entrepreneur within him was made disappointed and forced into migration. The trader who was a bridge connecting the country from north to south and east to west was pushed into fear and disorder. As a result, a situation of despair, farmers’ distress, and closure of MSMEs was created in the state. The CM said that in the last nine years, the state has completely changed this scenario. A clear agricultural policy reversed the circumstances. Earlier, the cost was high and production was low, and middlemen dominated. Today, the cost is low, production is high, and the full benefit of the produce is being given directly to farmers through DBT.
He said, “In this journey of development, Uttar Pradesh has once again placed the food provider at the center and has accelerated the agricultural economy at double speed”.
