Farmer Subsidy

The government on Wednesday announced an 11 per cent hike in agriculture credit target to Rs 20 lakh crore for the next fiscal with focus on animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries, a moved aimed at providing higher farm loans at a subsidised rates to the farming community. Among other big ticket announcements for agriculture and allied sector, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman -- in her budget speech -- said the government will launch a new sub-scheme of Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana with an investment of Rs 6,000 crore to improve value chain efficiencies and expand the fishery market. Customs duty on key inputs for domestic manufacturing of shrimp feed will also be reduced to promote export of marine products, she said. For adoption of natural farming, the FM said the government will facilitate 1 crore farmers for this purpose and will also set up 10,000 Bio-Input Resource Centres for creating a national-level distributed micro-fertilizer and pesticide manufacturing ...

In what could be a Diwali bonanza for millions of farmers, the govt will release Rs 16,000 crore under the 12th installment of PM-KISAN scheme through, which is expected to benefit 10 crore farmers

Under 'One Nation One Fertiliser' all fertiliser bags, irrespective of their contents or the company that manufactures them, will carry a uniform brand name called "Bharat"

Under PM KISAN Yojana, the payment is done in the form of three equal installments of Rs 2,000 each. But to avail of the benefits, the farmers need to get themselves registered under the scheme

Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday decided to provide an input subsidy of Rs 10,000 per acre to the farmers who will utilize the paddy cultivation area for farming of other identified Kharif crops

If fewer hands were employed on the farms, incomes per head would rise for those who stay engaged in agriculture. Farmers would then not worry about assured product prices, writes T N Ninan.

The difference between the actuarial premium rate and the premium paid by farmers was the subsidy shared equally between the Centre and states

In fact, the U.K.'s looming departure from the EU may leave a 98 billion-euro hole in the next EU budget and that shortfall has exposed deep discontent on the continent.

Recently, UP and Haryana's state advisory policy had announced a cash subsidy of close to Rs 100 billion as on mid-September 2018