Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Shri Prithviraj Chavan yesterday praised Gujarat’s development in the area of agriculture.

This news has come at a time when Gujarat Congress is going to start farmers agitation in the state against Modi govt.

Speaking in Marathi at Ahmednagar’s Mahatma Phule Agriculture University yesterday, Maharashtra Chief Minister said, “Gujarat’s Agri growth rate is 11 per cent consistently for last ten years.”

He further said, “We are familiar Gujarat’s situation that they get Narmada water but the way agricultural production happens there, their one year produce is equal to our ten years produce. Though some fundamental changes are now initiated(in our state), their growth rate is 11%, which has never been witnessed before and never would happen in future(na bhuto na bhavishyati). While they are having 11% growth rate in agriculture, our growth rate in agriculture is merely 4-4.5%. Whether we would be able to achieve same growth rate as Gujarat or not, we have to think about that.”