Farmer – Vanakkam!
Prime Minister – Hello. Are they all natural farming?
Farmer – Yes sir.
Farmer – This is Solar Dried Banana..
Prime Minister – who after removing the banana…
Farmer – Yes sir.
Prime Minister – What does this vest have to do with it?
Kisan – All these are banana value added products and this is waste…. sir, this is from banana waste, this is from banana value addition sir.
Prime Minister – And your goods go online everywhere in India?
Farmer – Yes sir.
Farmer – We are presenting this actual entire Tamil Nadu here sir, the entire farmer producer company and means individual means, he also comes along with it sir.
Prime Minister: Good.
Farmers – They all mean us online, also export, and sell in the entire local market of India, sell in super market etc. Sir.
Prime Minister – How many people work together in one FPO?
Farmer – Thousand.
Prime Minister – One thousand.
Farmer – Yes.
Prime Minister – Oh. And banana in an entire area that do mix, different things?
Farmer – There are different exclusives in different areas sir, we have GI products now.
Prime Minister: Well, this is also.
Farmers – There are four varieties of tea. It’s all everyone knows black tea. And, this is from that (not clear). We call it white tea. And, this is oolong. This is 40% of fermented tea is oolong tea and green tea.
Prime Minister – Nowadays there is a lot of market for white tea.
Farmer – Or, Yes Sir.
Farmer – Brinjal all in natural farming.
Prime Minister – This season mangoes are available…. ?
Farmer – or, mango, yes sir…..
Farmers – Off season mangoes….
Prime Minister – Nowadays it has a lot of market?
Farmer – Moringa,
Prime Minister – Moringa.
Farmer – Yes sir.
Prime Minister – No, what do you do with the leaves of Moringa?
Farmers also export Moringa Leaves by making powder.
Prime Minister – Powder very much nowadays….
Farmers are in demand.
Prime Minister: There is a lot of demand.
Farmer – Yes sir.
Prime Minister – In which countries do you take Menly?
Farmer – America, African country and Japan is a major, one is better than South East Asia….
Farmers – Actually these are complete GI products, 25 GI products from Tamil Nadu are currently kept here. Kumbhakonam’s Beetle, and Madurai’s Malli and this is a Madurai sir, and this means all the meaning here….
Prime Minister – Where is the market?
Farmer – This is in the whole of India sir, and in Tamil Nadu each and every function they use it…
Prime Minister – Does my Kashi one take it or not? Banarasi feeds pan.
Farmer: Yes sir.
Farmer – This is a rooster…..
Prime Minister – How much production has increased?
Farmer – Less, there is a 100 plus product sir, we people, on behalf of us now from honey….
Prime Minister – its market?
Farmer – There is too much sir, the demand is also high, it is our market of the whole world sir honey.
We have nearly thousand plus paddy varieties in the traditional variety only… equal to millet all the, you know like value sir……
Prime Minister – What Tamil Nadu used to do in Paddy,
Farmer: Yes sir.
Prime Minister: The world has not been able to do that yet.
Farmer – That’s right, sir.
Prime Minister: Yes.
Farmer – Sir, it exports paddy and rice and value added to it, all the meaning of us, it has been displayed here sir now.
Prime Minister – Farmers who are young generation, come for training?
Farmer: Yes sir. It’s too much now.
Prime Minister – They will ask questions, they must not understand that such a man is a PhD, what is he doing, and he will see the benefits in it, so what do you explain?
Farmers used to see them like crazy earlier, and now they get more income of 2 lakhs in a month, sir, they get more than the collector. That’s why people consider them a lot of inspiration.
Prime Minister – So now all the collectors will come.
We trained 7,000 farmers in our farm. Its a model farm recognised by natural farming scheme (TNAU)..and college students trained 3,000 students.
Prime Minister – Do you get a market?
Farmers – We directly market, we export to countries. Then we value added the product. Oil, hair oil, copra, soap.
Prime Minister – Who will buy your hair oil?
Prime Minister – And when I was in Gujarat, I had developed a concept for cattle hostel.
Farmer: Yes.
Prime Minister – Keep all the cattle hostels in the village brother.
Farmer – Yes.
Prime Minister – So the village also remains clean, and a doctor is needed, four-five arrangers are needed, very good maintenance is done.
Farmers – All this is what it is, by producing this mass, they give it to the farmers of Aju-Baju who are…
The Prime Minister gives to the farmers.
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