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The State authorities volition proceed providing further bonus to paddy farmers notwithstanding the Centre’s request that it beryllium discontinued, Agriculture Minister P. Prasad said present connected Wednesday.
The Agriculture Minister was inaugurating the 2026 variation of the Value Addition for Income Generation successful Agriculture (VAIGA) festival organised by the Agriculture section connected the World Market field astatine Anayara here. The festival is connected till February 16.
The State authorities has been providing a bonus of ₹6.31 per kg arsenic an summation to the minimum enactment terms (MSP) of ₹23.69 arsenic an encouragement to farmers. The State authorities has been disbursing the bonus since the MSP provided by the Centre unsocial volition not beryllium capable for paddy farmers successful the look of unstable prices, helium said.
Mr. Prasad underscored the request for worth summation successful agriculture for enhancing husbandman incomes. Farmers and husbandman collectives request to ore connected entrepreneurship for making farming profitable, helium said. The Minister described the VAIGA fest arsenic a way for taking farmers from “crop to price,” and an instrumentality for strengthening the workplace sector.
KERA project
The State authorities had pursued the World Bank-aided ₹2,365-crore Kerala Climate Resilient Agri-Value Chain Modernisation (KERA) task successful a script wherever enactment was not forthcoming from the Centre. The KERA task is designed to payment the State’s farmers successful a large way, helium said.
VAIGA 2026 features much than 250 stalls. The Agriculture Minister inaugurated the fest by lighting a lamp made of yam. Participants see husbandman collectives, cooperative institutions, husbandman shaper organisations and nationalist and backstage assemblage agencies and entrepreneurs. A B2B conscionable is planned astatine edifice O By Tamara connected Friday. Around 130 producers and 96 traders are expected to enactment successful the meet. A Farmer Parliament is planned connected February 16 astatine the Travancore Hall, Technopark.
