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Gujarat’s 49.31 lakh farmers volition person ₹986 crore nether the 21st instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), released nationwide by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Coimbatore connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025). The transportation is portion of the ₹18,000 crore disbursed to much than 9 crore farmers crossed the country.
The Prime Minister’s code was streamed unrecorded crossed Gujarat, including astatine a State-level lawsuit successful Gandhinagar wherever Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Agriculture Minister Jitu Vaghani distributed support letters for cultivation assistance schemes worthy implicit ₹11.68 lakh.
Mr. Patel said the “double-engine government” had swiftly announced a ₹10,000-crore alleviation bundle to assistance farmers retrieve from losses caused by caller unseasonal and aggravated rainfall. He said that improved irrigation and near-universal daytime powerfulness supply, present reaching much than 98% of farmers, had transformed the State’s cultivation sector.
Speaking astir the Centre’s absorption connected biology sustainability, Mr. Patel said the Prime Minister had consistently promoted accrued greenish screen and encouraged earthy farming. Chemical-heavy practices, helium warned, were harming ungraded wellness and quality well-being. “Natural farming is the agriculture of the future,” helium said, calling for wide adoption to unafraid semipermanent ungraded fertility and healthier crops.
He besides pointed to the Krishi Mahotsav, launched successful Gujarat successful 2005 during Mr. Modi’s tenure arsenic Chief Minister, arsenic a cardinal inaugural that brought technological guidance straight to farmers’ fields and strengthened the “lab to land” model.
Agriculture Minister Mr. Vaghani said astir 3 lakh farmers successful Gujarat joined the unrecorded telecast done Krishi Vigyan Kendras, gram panchayats, APMCs and different centres. He listed measures specified arsenic mechanisation, nanotechnology, harvest protection, earthy farming and zero-budget farming arsenic portion of the state’s efforts to boost productivity portion cutting input costs.
He added that MSP procurement remained a important information nett for farmers, noting that much than 1 lakh metric tonnes of groundnut had already been procured astatine 293 centres successful the state, amounting to implicit ₹1,100 crore.
Additional Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Dr. Anju Sharma said authorities schemes present screen the full cultivation rhythm from seeds and fertilisers to alleviation enactment and MSP operations. She said the upgraded i-Khedut Portal 2.0 was helping farmers use seamlessly for aggregate benefits.
During the programme, Prime Minister Modi interacted with farmers from assorted states, portion successful Gandhinagar, 15 beneficiaries received assistance nether agriculture and horticulture schemes.
