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dated August 28, 1960: New approach to farming

Addressing the Agriculture Ministers' Conference, Prime Minister Nehru said that agriculture and agricultural production had become the pivot of all our work, programmes and plans, and he was happy to know that the stage when some of the States did not pay enough attention to this important subject was over. Referring to the use of fertilizers, he said that although these were important, even more important was “the mind of the man who uses them”. There was a tremendous difference between “copying others” in things which had no roots and doing things for oneself. He exhorted the Ministers to get the “fertilizer mind” implanted among their people.

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