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NEW DELHI: With the run for Bihar elections gathering pace, PM Modi connected Saturday launched 2 mega cardinal schemes with a full outlay of Rs 35,440 crore to alteration 100 low-performing agri-districts and summation accumulation of pulses to trim imports, urging farmers to absorption connected some selfreliance and exports.Addressing a gathering of farmers and workplace policymakers astatine the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, helium said, “On 1 hand, we volition person to beryllium self-sufficient, portion connected the different hand, we volition person to nutrient for the planetary market...We person to absorption connected those crops which tin predominate the satellite agri market. These 2 schemes – PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (with an outlay of Rs 24,000 crore for 100 lowperforming districts) and Mission for self-sufficiency successful pulses (with an outlay of Rs 11,440 crore) – volition play captious roles successful this journey.
He further emphasised farmers’ captious publication successful making the state self-reliant successful nutrient accumulation and calling upon them to pb the mode successful gathering a developed India.On the occasion, helium besides virtually inaugurated 1,054 completed projects valued astatine implicit Rs 5,450 crore and laid instauration stones for an further 50 projects, worthy astir Rs 815 crore, relating to agriculture, carnal husbandry, fisheries, and nutrient processing sectors.
Both the recently launched centralschemeswill beryllium implemented from the upcoming rabi (winter sowing) season, extending till 2030-31. Under the PM Dhan Dhaanya Yojana for 100 low-productivity districts, workplace output volition beryllium enhanced done assorted interventions, including a absorption connected higher irrigation sum and harvest diversification.Among the 100 identified districts, Uttar Pradesh accounts for the highest fig (12). It is followed by Maharashtra (9); Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan (8); Bihar (7); Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and West Bengal (4); Assam, Kerala and Chhattisgarh (3); and Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and UT of J&K (2).These districts person been identified based connected 3 factors: debased productivity, mean harvest strength and belowaverage entree to credit. Thirty-six antithetic schemes of 11 departments volition beryllium converged to instrumentality the programme. “We person often heard the operation ‘36 ka aankda’; a mode of saying that 2 parties are wholly astatine likelihood with each other. But arsenic a government, we situation specified perceptions and reverse them,” PM Modi said, underlining that the govt has brought unneurotic 36 schemes nether PM DhanDhaanya Krishi Yojana to make the identified districts.
