Saturday, February 1, 2020

#budget2020-Farmers💙

Finance Minister- Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget 2020 speech has proposed a 16-points action plan to boost agriculture and farmers welfare.....




Pic-L Balachander...
Info from The Hindu...
 




The value points from that budget are...

* Agriculture market needs to be liberalised; govt proposes to handhold farmers, says Finance minister..


* Comprehensive measures for 100 water-stressed districts being proposed

* Government will help 20 lakh farmers for setting up solar pumps; Farm market will to be liberalized.

* Another 15 lakh farmers to be helped to solarise their grid-connected pump sets.

* Scheme to enable farmers to set up solar power generation capacity on their fallow/barren lands and to sell it to the grid.

* Supporting states to focus on one product for one district so as to make way for Horticulture to gain momentum.

Change in incentive scheme for chemical fertilisers. We will encourage balanced use of all fertilizers, a necessary step to change the incentive regime which encourages excessive use of chemical fertilizer



Krishi UDAN scheme for agricultural exports on international and national routes. This will also improve value realization in North East and tribal districts

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