{"id":86118,"date":"2019-07-06T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2019-07-06T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:36:05","slug":"budget-briefsagriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/budget-briefsagriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Briefs:Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Finance Minister has said that the government will invest widely in agriculture infrastructure and support private entrepreneurship for value addition in farm sector.<\/li><li>The government has also proposed a <strong>Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana(PMMSY)<\/strong> to establish a robust fisheries management framework and check gaps in the value chain.<\/li><li>The government has proposed to increase budget allocation for the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare by over 78 % to 1.39 lakh crore rupees for the current fiscal.Out of the total amount,75,000 crore rupees will be for the <strong>Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi<\/strong>.<\/li><li>The government has also proposed setting up of 10,000 new Farmer Producer Organisations(FPOs) to ensure economies of scale for farmers over the next five years.<\/li><li>The government will also work with state governments to see that farmers get a fair price through electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) that was launched in 2016.<\/li><li>The finance minister also announced a proposal of <strong>zero budget farming .<\/strong>Zero budget farming is a set of farming methods that involve zero credit for growing agricultural produce and no use of chemical fertilizers.<\/li><li>The minister has also said that farmers should be encouraged to adopt dairying by creating infrastructure for cattle feed manufacturing, milk procurement, processing and marketing.She said this would turn &#8220;annadata&#8221; (a reference to farmers) into &#8220;urjadata&#8221; (energy provider).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister has said that the government will invest widely in agriculture infrastructure and support private entrepreneurship for value addition in farm sector. The government has also proposed a Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana(PMMSY) to establish a robust fisheries management framework and check gaps in the value chain. The government has proposed to increase budget&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/budget-briefsagriculture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Budget Briefs:Agriculture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3127],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-86118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-agriculture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704898588},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}