Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government claims to be working diligently to "rescue farmers from the crisis of agriculture and to make agriculture a profitable enterprise".

However it recently formed a separate "Agriculture Cabinet" -- probably the first of its kind in the country-and passed a comprehensive "Organic Policy" to make Madhya Pradesh an organic state, an important priority and poll-promise under the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's "Swadeshi" ideology.

The hybrid maize expansion project, currently being implemented under Public-Private Partnership in seven tribal districts of the state, is an extension of "Project Sunshine".