Chouhan has busy first week at AgriMin

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has underlined the need to remove barriers to effective implementation and monitoring of government schemes, such as the Lakhpati Didi programme, which provides training to women in self-help groups (SHGs) to enable them to generate a sustainable annual income of at least 1 lakh per annum.

- SANJEEB MUKHERJEE

He called for curbs on trade of spurious pesticides and seeds.

The minister, who took oath as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers last week, held a series of meetings with officials in his first week in office to take stock of the challenges faced by the agriculture sector and the farming community. He held meetings with nongovernment agriculture experts and the head of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on Minimum Support Price.