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Expressing disappointment implicit the Union Budget 2026 presented connected Sunday, Southern Districts Farmers’ Association termed it arsenic “neglect of farming sector”.
In a statement, its wide secretary, M. Arjunan, condemned the meagre 3% allocation oregon ₹1,62,671 crore retired of the full fund outlay of ₹53.5 lakh crore allocated for agriculture and allied sectors.
“In a state wherever 50% of the colonisation was babelike connected agriculture that contributed astir 15 to 18% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the meagre allocation of 3% is tantamount to neglect of the farming sector.
The fund has not spoken astir implementation of M.S. Swaminathan Committee recommendations for providing minimum enactment terms to the workplace produce. Besides, it revealed dominance of firm assemblage connected seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and workplace equipments and machines and negligible infrastructure for retention of foodgrains.
The fund has not provided immoderate solution to the regular problems of the farmers similar faster claim, quicker settlement, wider sum and idiosyncratic security sum nether harvest security strategy that has been benefiting the firm sector. Similarly, the fund has not spoken astir the harvest nonaccomplishment owed to drought, flood, pest-attack and diseases and besides damaged by chaotic animals and the request to supply contiguous alleviation to the farmers, the connection said.
Mr. Arjunan said that the committedness of doubling farmer’s income fixed by the Prime Minister had not been fulfilled.
The fund has besides not allotted funds for stream linking projects astatine the nationalist and State levels. Besides, it has not provided immoderate strategy to forestall the farmers from incurring losses owed to uncertain rainfall and clime change.
