Shimla, June 7 -- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday visited an exhibition by farmer producer organisations and start-ups at the Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry in Himachal Pradesh's Solan. Emphasising the need to empower the farming community, Dhankar called on rural youth to become agripreneurs and help integrate farmers more actively into the mainstream economy.

Speaking at the event, the Vice President said, "Boys and girls like you must initiate farming families into marketing of their produce. Rural youth from the farming community must be trained here to be entrepreneurs and agripreneurs. Their army must rise: this economy is vast, immense, and unparalleled. The farmer's participation in it is very low....