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Modi Launches Rs 42,000-Crore Agriculture Package Focused on Productivity and Pulses

The rollout seeks to boost yields, build pulse self-reliance, modernize rural value chains to raise farm incomes.

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Overview

  • At a Krishi programme in New Delhi, the Prime Minister unveiled two flagship schemes worth Rs 35,440 crore: PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana and the Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses.
  • PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana carries an outlay of Rs 24,000 crore to raise productivity, drive crop diversification and sustainable practices, expand local storage, improve irrigation, and ease credit in 100 selected districts.
  • The Rs 11,440-crore pulses mission targets higher yields, expanded cultivation area, stronger procurement, storage and processing, and reduced post-harvest losses across the value chain.
  • Projects inaugurated total over Rs 5,450 crore with foundations for about Rs 815 crore, including AI training centres (Bengaluru, J&K), a cattle IVF lab (Assam), milk powder plants (Mehsana, Indore, Bhilwara), a fish feed plant (Tezpur), and new cold-chain infrastructure.
  • In allied sectors, the government detailed 16 animal husbandry projects inaugurated worth Rs 947 crore with one foundation of Rs 219 crore, plus fisheries foundations for seven projects worth Rs 572 crore and nine inaugurations worth Rs 121 crore, alongside milestones such as 50 lakh farmer memberships in 10,000 FPOs.