Welcoming the Budget's focus on the agriculture sector, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that it is the budget for the villages, poor people, farmers, women and youth. He further noted that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, unprecedented provisions have been made in the budget for the overall development of the agriculture sector.
The minister said that the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has been increased continuously in both the tenures of the Government, this time also it has been increased to Rs.1.32 lakh crore from Rs.1.23 lakh crore last year. Tomar thanked the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister for increasing the agriculture budget.
Besides, Tomar said that there is an emphasis on increasing agricultural production and productivity in the budget, as well as adequate provisions, have been made for oilseeds mission, linking agriculture with technology, farmers to get a fair price for their produce etc. He also said that agricultural diversification, promotion of organic and natural farming, increasing capacity-efficiency of farmers, crop evaluation, farmer drones, irrigation, adding courses in agricultural universities, agricultural research are all unprecedented provisions, which will bring about a paradigm shift in agriculture sector.
