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Karnataka’s agriculture assemblage has registered a robust maturation complaint of 9.1% successful 2025-26, bolstered by a conducive environment, including bully monsoon. The complaint stood astatine 4% successful 2024-25 and was successful the antagonistic (- 4.9%) successful 2023-24. The consequent bully monsoon seasons marked by affluent harvests person contributed to a steadfast maturation complaint of the sector.
However, cultivation experts importune that this steadfast maturation complaint would not mean overmuch to farmers unless determination are schemes to guarantee they go beneficiaries of it.
“The request of the hr is to instrumentality measures to guarantee that the benefits of maturation scope farmers,” said noted cultivation economist Dr. T.N. Prakash Kammaradi. “It tin hap lone erstwhile determination is simply a strategy for ensuring assured prices to their crops and due marketplace linkages. This tin beryllium done lone done affirmative interventions astatine the post-production stage,” helium observed.
Interest-free loans
The State Budget has acceptable a people of disbursing interest-free cultivation loans to the tune of ₹30,000 crore to 38 lakh farmers.
The authorities has disbursed interest-free loans to the tune of ₹22,000 crore to 25 lakh farmers till February 2026, arsenic against the people of disbursing ₹28,000 crore indebtedness to 37 lakh farmers successful 2025-26.
Eco-friendly practices
The State Budget has announced a fewer schemes to enactment eco-friendly cultivation practices, on with measures to fortify the initiatives to backmost cultivation of millets.
The Budget has projected the Vasudhamruta programme to beforehand eco-friendly and sustainable cultivation practices by enhancing the integrated c contented of ungraded on with its physical, chemical, and biologic properties. The programme volition beryllium implemented implicit the adjacent 3 years.
Similarly, the Sasya Sanjeevini scheme has been announced to place pests and diseases astatine an aboriginal signifier and to supply timely counsel to farmers connected power measures specified arsenic the usage of eco-friendly bio-control agents and bio-pesticides, on with different safer power measures.
The Budget has projected to fortify the Millet Hub, which is being established to beforehand millets and integrated nutrient successful the State. The hub, which had been announced successful the erstwhile Budget, volition present beryllium developed into a self-sustaining institution. It volition relation arsenic a single-window strategy to supply method assistance, processing facilities, etc.
The Agriculture Department’s Raitha Kare Kendra (Farmer Call Centre) is acceptable to beryllium upgraded utilizing AI exertion to supply farmers speedy entree to reliable accusation connected weather, markets etc.
In a bid to forestall excess usage of h2o successful paddy cultivation, the Budget has projected to beforehand Alternate Wetting and Drying method of irrigation to summation h2o usage ratio successful paddy cultivation.
To combat the menace of spurious workplace inputs, the fund has announced constitution of a state-level advisory committee to urge measures to combat the proviso of spurious, unsafe, oregon defective seeds and pesticides to farmers, and to curb the merchantability of cultivation inputs astatine prices exceeding marketplace rates.
The Budget has announced that high-value farms, post-harvest technologies, and horticulture-based industries volition beryllium established successful farms and nurseries of the Horticulture Department nether Public-Private Partnership to pull concern and to beforehand value-addition successful the horticulture sector.
