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Cover Story 2022: Year of Willpower

THE SMELL OF

ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT

India has reached the top 10 countries of the world for the first
time in terms of agricultural exports. The country created new
records of agricultural exports during the Corona period. Today
India is recognised as a big agricultural exporting country…

“Krishirdhanya Krishirmedhya Jantunam
Jeevan: Krishi”- The reforms carried out
with this mantra have ensured that farmers Wheat: India became
of the country today are more well-off and the second-largest
prosperous. Due to the resolve to double producer of wheat in
the income of the farmers and the policies
of agricultural reforms, the farmers of the the world.
country are now on the of self-reliance and
prosperity. AatmaNirbhar Bharat is getting
strength from AatmaNirbhar agriculture.
For the first time in the country, several
clusters have contributed to exports. For 1068.4
example, fresh vegetables from Varanasi Lakh tonnes
and black rice from Chandauli have been Lakh tonnes 868.7
exported for the first time. Apart from During
this
this, oranges from Nagpur, bananas from
Anantapur, mangoes from Lucknow, etc. period,
have also been exported from other clusters 70 lakh
of the country. Export merchandise for the tonnes
first time has played an important role in of wheat
the success of Indian agricultural products. were
Exports from the agriculture sector are now exported.
being made to countries where no one could
have imagined earlier. In agricultural exports, 2010- 2021-
India is among the top 10 countries in the 2011 2022
world. The Burmese grape of Assam, the
apricot of Ladakh, the banana of Jalgaon,
and the Bhagalpuri Zardari mango are some are also being set up at the district level, which is
of the many fruits that have taken foreign benefiting the farmers. If these early signs of Indian
markets by storm. Such products are being products penetrating the world market are seen,
promoted today under schemes like One then the farmer of India is now showing the ability
District One Product. Today, export hubs to feed not only the country but also the world. For

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