TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ PM Modi in Varanasi where he dedicated a six-lane widening project on NH-19 to nation. He also made a reference to the farmers’ protest in Delhi: “Infrastructure development in Uttar Pradesh has improved since Yogi Adityanath has become the Chief Minister.
“Today work is underway on development of 12 airports in the state. When connectivity in a region improves it also benefits the farmers there. Recently, a fund of Rs 1 lakh crores was constituted to establish cold storage facilities for farmers & other agriculture infrastructure.
“With establishing of a perishable cargo center in Varanasi, now farmers here have got a facility to store and sell their produce easily. Due to this storage capacity, for the first time, the produce of farmers here is being exported in large quantities.
“For the first time, produce of Varanasi farmers is being exported to foreign countries at a large scale. Varanasi’s Langda and Dussehri mangoes are spreading their fragrance in London & middle-east… Mango farmers need not go to other cities for packaging now.
“New agricultural reforms have given farmers new options and legal protection. Earlier, loan waiver packages used to be announced but the benefits of such schemes never used to reach the farmer.
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