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So, in the villages development, we will inform this Committee which is made and ensure that every farmer will get a particular quantity of water and there should not be more water given so that there is enough available. So, this is the continuation of water re-source. Then the land should not be used for building construction, for industrial, for settling human being. All that has to be given up so that there is proper conservation of land for agricultural development.

Then we are trying to stress equal fairly integrated pest management. The chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides will not be used, and we will use integrated pest management and use bio-fertilizers.

Now, integrated pest management, you know, what they call it, "to set a chief, to guide a chief." So you have the insects or the pests which are in the atmosphere. They are being used to see that the pests which are destroying their growths are eaten away by this, in-stead of putting pesticides. If you put chemical pesticides, the quality of the food will deteriorate and when we consume their food, our health problem will increase. So to avoid that, we have this integrated pest management and use of bio-fertilizers. If we use chemical fertilizers, again there is a risk of bad food coming into the food chain, into the human body and giving more diseases. So, we are trying to avoid that. So, the stress is on integrated pest management and use of bio-fertilizers. Bio-fertilizers, that means leaves, grass and all dirt. We just put it in the ground, and then fertilizers come out of the dirt, Plus whatever excreta of the animal is there, they will just make pits in the ground, put it there for ten, fifteen, twenty days, then it becomes a good fertilizer and we use it. This doesn't mean that we are not manufacturing fertilizers. We are still manufacturing chemical fertilizers but the stress in on bio-fertilizers especially in the rural areas where this is available.

Then credit support. You see, our farmers in the field, they used to get a loan from the rich moneylenders in the rural areas. What happened was that a farmer used to become a bonded laborer. If I take hundred of it from somebody, then for all my life I will be working for him and work will only be the interest and the principal of my debt will be brought down to my children and grandchildren.

So, now, the aim is to free the farmers from being bonded laborers, and they are having these cooperative societies and cooperative banks. And we are trying to see that a loan is given to farmers easily and at the low rates or interest.

Then insurance. Due to the vagaries of weather, we are having this problem of restriction of crop year by year. So, we are giving crop insurance policies to the farmers who pay a small premium to us, and then, if the crop is lost, we are able to reimburse the damage to them.

The cooperative societies are a major sector for our agricultural development and we are trying to make them democratic in such a manner that they have full autonomy.

Then supply of inputs. We are trying to see that needs, fertilizers and machinery are all available to the farmer at their doorsteps, near the village, at cheap prices so that they can

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