Commodities@Moneycontrol: PM Modi calls for agriculture experts meet

In order to address farm distress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a national conference on February 19-20 to discuss short and long term solutions to give a fillip to the agriculture sector and achieve the goal of doubling farmers income by 2022.

'The national conference 2022', to be held at the Pusa complex in the national capital, is being organised by the Union Agriculture Ministry.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to take part in this conference on February 20, Agriculture Secretary S K Pattanayak told PTI.

Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, senior officials of Niti Aayog, farm price advisory body CACP, state varsities, farmers and farmers bodies will be among others who will be part of the meeting.

Watch Manisha Gupta, Commodities Editor, CNBC-TV18, talk about the meet meant to to identify ways to address agrarian crisis.