Bhubaneswar, Oct 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of a state-of-the-art wholesale fish market in Bhubaneswar and integrated aqua park at Hirakud through video-conferencing on October 11.
Modi will address the nation through video conferencing from New Delhi and launch the Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhanya Krishi Yojana.
A meeting was held with all the agriculture ministers of the country in this regard under the chairmanship of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan through video conference. Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha and Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Empowerment, Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, and Minister of Fisheries and Animal Resources Development Gokulananda Mallik attended the meeting.
The government has prepared these schemes to ensure food security in the country, provide nutritious food to the people, increase farmers' income and production. More than 50 lakh farmers and FPOs of the country will benefit from the initiatives. This year, a record amount of vegetables and food grains have been produced in the country as compared to the previous years.
