NEW DELHI: With the marketing campaign for Bihar elections gathering tempo, PM Modi on Saturday launched two mega central schemes with a complete outlay of Rs 35,440 crore to rework 100 low-performing agri-districts and improve manufacturing of pulses to cut back imports, urging farmers to deal with each selfreliance and exports.Addressing a gathering of farmers and farm policymakers on the Indian Agricultural Analysis Institute, he stated, “On one hand, we must be self-sufficient, whereas however, we must produce for the worldwide market…We’ve got to deal with these crops which might dominate the world agri market. These two schemes – PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (with an outlay of Rs 24,000 crore for 100 lowperforming districts) and Mission for self-sufficiency in pulses (with an outlay of Rs 11,440 crore) – will play very important roles on this journey. He additional emphasised farmers’ very important contribution in making the nation self-reliant in meals manufacturing and calling upon them to paved the way in constructing a developed India.
On the event, he additionally just about inaugurated 1,054 accomplished tasks valued at over Rs 5,450 crore and laid basis stones for an extra 50 tasks, value round Rs 815 crore, referring to agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, and meals processing sectors.Each the newly launched centralschemeswill be applied from the upcoming rabi (winter sowing) season, extending until 2030-31. Underneath the PM Dhan Dhaanya Yojana for 100 low-productivity districts, farm output will probably be enhanced by way of varied interventions, together with a deal with greater irrigation protection and crop diversification.Among the many 100 recognized districts, Uttar Pradesh accounts for the very best quantity (12). It’s adopted by Maharashtra (9); Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan (8); Bihar (7); Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and West Bengal (4); Assam, Kerala and Chhattisgarh (3); and Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and UT of J&Ok (2).These districts have been recognized based mostly on three components: low productiveness, reasonable crop depth and belowaverage entry to credit score. Thirty-six totally different schemes of 11 departments will probably be converged to implement the programme. “We’ve got typically heard the phrase ‘36 ka aankda’; a manner of claiming that two events are utterly at odds with one another. However as a authorities, we problem such perceptions and reverse them,” PM Modi stated, underlining that the govt. has introduced collectively 36 schemes beneath PM DhanDhaanya Krishi Yojana to develop the recognized districts.