NEW DELHI: Finance minister
Nirmala Sitharaman
on Friday announced a Rs 1.63 lakh crore package for agriculture and allied sectors aimed at strengthening infrastructure, logistics and capacity building at farm gate.
Announcing the third instalment of government’s Rs 20 lakh crore
economic package
to deal with the economic fallout of COVID-19 pandemic, Sitharaman said that the government has taken several measures in the last two months to support farmers, including minimum support price (MSP) purchases of Rs 73,300 crore.
Here are the measures announced by the finance minister:
Government has set up a Rs 1 lakh crore agriculture fund for farm-gate infrastructure. This will be utilised for se