Lauding farm workers efforts for ensuring the food security even during the current crisis, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that the country's farm sector is functioning smoothly despite COVID-19 lockdown and there will not be much impact on its growth in the current fiscal unlike other sectors.
The Minister noted that in the current lockdown situation, the agriculture sector is functioning smoothly as there has been no shortage of foodgrains, vegetables and dairy products. However, he further added that many other sectors are impacted.
Besides, Tomar is expecting the impact of lockdown on the overall agriculture GDP will not be much this year on hopes of good rains, further noting that the government has exempted farm activities from the lockdown rules. The Minister also said that agriculture GDP was at 3.7 per cent during last year, expressing confident that this growth in future will not be impacted much.