Budget 2023-24: Push for millets, bio gas, agri-tech, increased agriculture credit target welcomed
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated around Rs 1.15 crore to Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in Budget 2023-24 against the last year's approximately Rs 1.10 lakh crore, a hike of around 4.6 percent.
The finance minister increased the agriculture credit target to Rs 20 lakh crore with focus on animal husbandry, dairy, and fisheries; announced the setting up of 10,000 Bhartiya Prakritik Kheti Bio-Input Resource Centres creating a national-level distributed micro-fertilizer and pesticide manufacturing network over the next three years; incentives for the adoption of alternative and natural fertilisers through PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Nourishment and Amelioration of Mother Earth (PRAN...
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