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Rajnath seeks all-party meet

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For consensus on recommendations

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday sought an all-party meeting to discuss the recommendations of the National Commission of Farmers and evolve a consensus to implement them.

Pointing out that the Commission was set up under the National Democratic Alliance Government in February 2004, he said that to deal with the agrarian crisis facing the country it was important to implement the recommendations.

The role of moneylenders should be eliminated; credit should be made available to farmers at 4 per cent interest; a knowledge power house should be set up for agriculture-related problems; and ways should be found for giving a fixed income to farmers and stabilising prices of agri-products through a strategy of effective market intervention, he said.

Mr. Singh, who has set up a party committee to go into the issue of special economic zones, said prime agriculture land should not be diverted for such zones.

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