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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman has said that agro-processing centres volition assistance farmers get higher prices for their cultivation produce, portion besides making selling and connectivity easier.
She was addressing a gathering aft inaugurating a portion of the Farmers Training and General Facility Centre for Agro-Processing astatine Jawalgera colony successful Sindhanur taluk of Raichur territory connected Thursday.
Raichur territory has fertile onshore which is located betwixt the Krishna and Tungabhadra and it produces astir 80,000 tonnes of reddish gram and 34,000 tonnes of chickpeas each year. With specified a precocious quantity of produce, it whitethorn necessitate astatine slightest 40 specified units to negociate it.
Explaining the benefits of mounting up processing units, Ms. Sitharaman said that farmers volition get amended terms for their nutrient if they process the products and merchantability them successful packets oregon different forms alternatively of transporting them straight to the market.
Considering this, the Union authorities has been establishing farmers grooming and wide facilities centres for agro-processing successful each districts of the Kalyan Karnataka portion and now, 1 specified portion has travel to Raichur district,” she said.
The Union Finance Minister advised farmers to marque usage of agro-processing units and said that “it is simply a bully determination that the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has joined hands with america for the constitution of agro-processing units, arsenic the Union authorities has implemented galore pro-farmer schemes ensuring farmers empowerment.”
Ms. Sitharaman gave details of schemes and benefits from the Union authorities to farmers and said that “24.74 crore farmers person been fixed Kisan cards, 8,000 crore ungraded tests person been conducted, a ₹93,000 crore assistance was sanctioned for irrigation projects nether the Krishi Sinchai Yojana, ₹1.74 lakh crore compensation has been fixed to farmers nether the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and a ₹3.69 lakh crore assistance nether the Kisan Samman Nidhi was utilized to administer ₹6,000 to each husbandman per year.”
The Union authorities has accrued 85% enactment prices for reddish gram from 2025-26. In the twelvemonth 2013-14, it was conscionable ₹4,300 per hectare. But present it has reached ₹8,000 per hectare aft the summation and the enactment terms for greenish gram has accrued to ₹8,800 per hectare from ₹4,500 arsenic fixed previously.
She promised wide improvement successful the chosen sectors by the NITI Aayog, which has declared Raichur and Yadgir arsenic aspirational districts, among others, crossed the country, and arsenic per the survey conducted successful 2022-23, Maski taluk has secured the fig 1 spot successful the ranking database for South India.
Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) K.V. Shaji has emphasised mounting up much agro-processing units to alteration farmers into entrepreneurs to guarantee amended livelihood and forestall migrations.
“The mounting up of the processing portion is simply a grounds of committedness to agrarian improvement and husbandman empowerment. NABARD and the Farmers Produce Organisation (FPO) are keen connected mounting up specified units, implementing schemes similar the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), arsenic the Union authorities has already announced funds for agriculture infrastructure. Therefore, NABARD volition guarantee to enactment connected mounting units up nether the guidance of the Union Finance Minister,” Mr. Shaji said.
Managing Director, ITC Limited, Sanjeev Puri said that successful each year’s budget, the Union authorities is allocating due funds for peculiar programmes related to farmers and agriculture and cultivation technology. These sectors volition spot improvement done implementating schemes with the relation of NABARD and ITC arsenic well.
Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Nagaraj said that the portion has travel up astatine a outgo of ₹2.54 crore utilizing the Union Finance Minister’s MP Fund, jointly with NABARD and nether the MP Local Area Development Scheme.
Deputy Commissioner Nitish K., Zilla Panchayat CEO Eshwar Kandu, Superintendent of Police G. Puttamadaiah, erstwhile MP K.Veerupaksgappa, the erstwhile MLA Venkatarao Nadagouda, Jawalagera Gram Panchayat president Nagalinga Yamanurappa, farmers and others were present.
