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The Union Cabinet has approved continuation of the Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) under Infrastructure Development Fund (IDF) with an outlay of ₹29,610.25 crore till 2025-26. India's aquaculture exports in 2023-24 were flat, after having grown in double digits during the last decade. Industry players say that focus on increasing productivity at the farm level will help improve its global competitiveness by reducing cost of production.

Responding to a query whether the target fixed for the year 2022 can be achieved at the present annual growth, the minister said, 'The government has been pursuing the target of doubling farmers' income.' He said the implementation of various recommendations of the committee and comprehensive interventions of the gove

Govt pursuing target of doubling farmers' income by 2022: Tomar SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 09, 2021, 10:31 PM IST Share Synopsis In 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had set a highly ambitious target of doubling farmers incomes by 2022. An inter-ministerial committee on "Doubling of Farmers' Income" was set up in April 2016 to recommend strategies to achieve this goal. Agencies Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar NEW DELHI: The government has been pursuing the target of doubling farmers' income by 2022 and several interventions taken are showing a "positive impact", Agr...

The government has been pursuing the target of doubling farmers' income by 2022 and several interventions taken are showing a "positive impact", Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told Parliament on Tuesday. In 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had set a highly ambitious target of doubling farmers incomes by 2022. An inter-ministerial committee on "Doubling of Farmers' Income" was set up in April 2016 to recommend strategies to achieve this goal. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Tomar said the committee submitted its report in September 2018. After ...

Agriculture set for accelerated growth The focus must now be on efficiency and effectiveness of implementation Over the last six years, the Government has been envisioning re-mandating the agricultural sector as an enterprise for employment and incomes for the farmers. Strategised as Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022, the roadmap aims at higher productivity-linked production, rationalisation of production costs, diversification into high value agriculture and increased real remunerative prices on the agri-produce. The Budget needs to be evaluated not through a compartmentalised pinhole, but ...