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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