Patna, June 9 -- Stressing the need for strengthening farming and villages for the transformation of India, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha said that the peasants' role was not only limited to providing food grains, but they were crucial in the nation-building.
Addressing Developed Agriculture Sankalp Abhiyan in Acharya Narendra Dev Agriculture and Technology University, Sinha said on Monday that our entire civilization depends on agriculture. He said that farmers were not just providers of food but were the nation builders. If the villages and farms were strong, then the farmers of India would become self-reliant and prosperous, he maintained.
Sinha said that agriculture is not just a livelihood, it is the soul of Indian cu...