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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) launched 2 large schemes for the agriculture assemblage with a combined outlay of ₹35,440 crore, including a pulses ngo aimed astatine reducing import dependency.
The lawsuit coincided with the commencement day of socialist person Jayaprakash Narayan.
He besides inaugurated projects valued astatine implicit ₹5,450 crore successful the agriculture, carnal husbandry, fisheries, and nutrient processing sectors, portion laying the instauration chromatic for further projects worthy astir ₹815 crore.
The 'Mission for Aatmanirbharta successful Pulses', with an outlay of ₹11,440 crore, aims astatine expanding pulses accumulation from the existent 252.38 lakh tonne to 350 lakh tonne by the 2030-31 harvest twelvemonth and reducing the country's import dependency.
The ₹24,000-crore 'Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana' aims to alteration 100 low-performing agri-districts. The strategy volition absorption connected enhancing productivity, promoting harvest diversification, improving irrigation and storage, and ensuring recognition entree successful the prime 100 districts.
The 2 schemes, already approved by the Cabinet, volition beryllium implemented from the upcoming rabi (winter) play till 2030-31.
Among the projects inaugurated are artificial insemination grooming centres successful Bengaluru and Jammu and Kashmir, centres of excellence astatine Amreli and Banas, an IVF laboratory successful Assam nether the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, beverage pulverization plants astatine Mehsana, Indore, and Bhilwara, and a food provender works nether the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana astatine Tezpur.
During the programme, Modi distributed certificates to farmers certified nether the National Mission for Natural Farming, MAITRI technicians, and Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) converted to Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samriddhi Kendras (PMKSKs) and Common Service Centres (CSCs).
The lawsuit marked important milestones achieved nether authorities initiatives, including 50 lakh husbandman memberships successful 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), of which 1,100 FPOs recorded an yearly turnover of implicit ₹1 crore successful 2024-25.
Other achievements see the certification of 50,000 farmers nether the National Mission for Natural Farming, certification of 38,000 MAITRIs (Multi-Purpose AI Technicians successful Rural India), authorisation and operationalisation of implicit 10,000 multipurpose and e-PACS for computerisation, and the enactment and strengthening of PACS, dairy, and fishery cooperative societies.
Mr. Modi besides interacted with farmers engaged successful pulses cultivation who person benefited from assorted authorities schemes aimed astatine establishing a worth chain-based attack successful agriculture, carnal husbandry, and fisheries.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, and Minister of State for Agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary were contiguous astatine the event.
