New Delhi, May 26:
PM Narendra Modi launched DD Kisan Channel today, National Secretary BJP Kisan Morcha Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal told that at this occasion Hon'ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that to take India forward, the villages will first have to be taken forward. "The farming community is a big one. And, if we have to take India forward, we will have to take the villages forward," Modi said at the launch of the DD Kisan Channel, a 24-hour farmer-centric channel. Grewal told that Hon'ble Prime Minister also said that the agriculture should be the focus to take the villages forward. "We will have to increase our productivity. At present, the average paddy production in India is 2 tonnes per hectare whereas, the global average is 3 tonnes per hectare and we will have to think how we can reach the global average.