{"id":86449,"date":"2020-02-02T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2020-02-02T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T10:09:30","slug":"budget-2020-govt-unveils-16-point-action-plan-to-revive-agricultural-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/budget-2020-govt-unveils-16-point-action-plan-to-revive-agricultural-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2020: Govt unveils 16-point action plan to revive agricultural sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Finance minister has proposed 16 action points focusing on doubling Farmers income, Horticulture sector, Food storage, Animal Husbandry and Blue economy.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About 16 point Action Plan:<\/strong>The key highlight of the 16-point action plan includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Help 20 lakh farmers setup standalone solar pumps under <strong>PM-KUSUM scheme.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Artificial insemination<\/strong> to be increased to 70% from the present 30%.<\/li><li>Expansion of NABARD Refinancing Scheme while MGNREGS to be used to develop fodder farm<\/li><li>State governments who undertake implementation of model laws (issued by the Central government) to be encouraged.<\/li><li><strong>Village Storage Scheme<\/strong> which will be run by the Women SHG (Self Help Group) to provide farmers a good holding capacity and reduce their logistics cost.<\/li><li>Indian Railways will set up a <strong>Kisan Rail<\/strong> for transporting perishable goods.<\/li><li><strong>Krishi Udaan<\/strong> will be launched by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on national and international routes for agricultural exports.<\/li><li>Target for Agricultural credit has been increased to Rs 15 lakh crore from Rs 12 lakh crore<\/li><li>Fish production to be raised to 200 lakh tonnes by 2022-23<\/li><li>By 2025, milk processing capacity to be doubled to 108 MT<\/li><li>Government proposes measures to improve the situation in 100 water-stressed districts<\/li><li><strong>One District One Product<\/strong> to be extended to Horticulture<\/li><li>Integrated Farming systems in Rain fed areas to be expanded<\/li><li><strong>Jaivik Kheti Portal <\/strong>\u2013 online national organic products market to be strengthened.<\/li><li>Foot and Mouth Disease, Brucellosis in cattle and Peste Des Petits ruminants(PPR) in sheep and goat to be eliminated by 2025.<\/li><li>Self Help Groups(SHGs) of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana to be mobilised.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Finance minister has proposed 16 action points focusing on doubling Farmers income, Horticulture sector, Food storage, Animal Husbandry and Blue economy. Facts: About 16 point Action Plan:The key highlight of the 16-point action plan includes: Help 20 lakh farmers setup standalone solar pumps under PM-KUSUM scheme. Artificial insemination to be increased to 70% from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/budget-2020-govt-unveils-16-point-action-plan-to-revive-agricultural-sector\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Budget 2020: Govt unveils 16-point action plan to revive agricultural sector<\/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":[218,388],"class_list":["post-86449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-union-budget","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913974},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86449","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=86449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}