Yadav was speaking at the inauguration of Central India’s largest agricultural exhibition 15th Agrovision event held at PDKV Ground, Dabha, Nagpur on November 22 2024.
“As a prelude to the establishment of Atmanirbhar Gaushalas and churning profitable business models from cow rearing, production and support farmers and cattle rearers in the milk cooperatives of Vidarbha. Cow rearing has great potential of boosting urban and rural economies”, said Dr Mohan Yadav, Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh at the inauguration of Central India’s largest agricultural exhibition 15th Agrovision event held at PDKV Ground, Dabha, Nagpur on November 22 2024.
Yadav also added that the state of Madhya Pradesh has significant cattle population, securing third rank, according to 2019 Census. Apart from making “cow ambulances” operational in the state, the Government has also undertaken the construction of urban cow shelters across in Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Bhopal and Indore, with a capacity of accommodating 10,000 cows.
“We have started the production of prawns fishes in Nagpur in order to utilise the potential of inland fisheries in Vidarbha. We are planning to export Vidarbha’s prawn fish to UAE, Dubai and Singapore” said Nitin Gadkari Chief patron of Agrovision and Union Minister Road Highways and Transport at the inaugural session of 15th Agrovision.
The event was graced by dignitaries Dr Sharad Gadakh Vice Chancellor, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University, Dr P G Patil, Chancellor of MPKV Rahuri, Dr Nitin Patil, Nagpur ,Vikram Wagh CEO Mahindra Tractors ,Sheikh Abdullah Atique, president, Silal, agritech food company UAE , Deepak Shah, President Crop Care Federation Corporate Relations Aid Alliance ,Dr T R Kesvan Group President TAFE Tractors , Foundation Dr C. D. Mayee, President of Agrovision Ravi Bortkar Secretary Agrovision, Ramesh Mankar, member of Agrovision committee along with MLA Sameer Meghe, Sudhakar Kohle, Charan Singh Thakur, Ashish Deshmukh, Dr Girish Gandhi member of Agrovision committee , Tekchand Savarkar, Nago Ganar were prominently present.
Gadkari further said that Mother Dairy has started a large milk processing plant in Nagpur with an investment of Rs 538 crore. Today Mother Dairy is buying five lakh litres of milk from farmers. The day Mother Dairy collects 50 lakh litres of milk from farmers in Vidarbha and other companies collect a total of one crore litres of milk, surely no farmer in Vidarbha will commit suicide. He advised the dairy farmers of Vidarbha present to use embryo transfer technique along with fodder cultivation to produce more milk yielding cows. We want to make agricultural specialists here and instead of making the farmers specialists, they appealed to make the entire village a specialist.
In his welcome address, Ravindra Boratkar briefed about the journey of Agrovision so far and its role in empowering the farmers. “15th edition of Agrovision will have 40 workshops for farmers on various topics related to allied industry and also 6 special workshops which will mainly focus on dairy, sugarcane, orange production food processing and importance of IT in agriculture. The exhibition will feature, electric tractors CNG and biogas powered tractors. 30 startups related to agriculture have been showcased in Agrovision, which should be taken advantage of by farmers, youth and traders,” he said.
A directory containing the information of all the participants of Agrovision was released on this occasion. Dr C D Mayee proposed the vote of thanks.