Overview
- Addressing a post-budget webinar, the Prime Minister urged a pivot toward export-oriented farming with stronger quality, branding and standards to link local producers to global markets.
- Region-specific promotion of high-value crops featured prominently, including coconut rejuvenation in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, cashew and cocoa programmes, sandalwood, agarwood in the Northeast and temperate nuts in Himalayan states.
- Modi spotlighted fisheries as a major growth lever, citing about 4–4.5 lakh tonnes produced from reservoirs and ponds today versus a 20 lakh tonne additional potential, with calls for new models in hatcheries, feed, processing and logistics.
- Digital infrastructure was framed as critical, with AgriStack and e-NAM expanding access as roughly 90 million farmers received digital IDs and surveys covered nearly 300 million land parcels.
- The government underscored higher support with Rs 1,62,671 crore budgeted for agriculture in 2026–27, over Rs 4 lakh crore disbursed under PM-Kisan, about Rs 2 lakh crore settled under PMFBY and a push for private investment, agri-tech, agri-fintech and women-led enterprises.