Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
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Efforts to Boost Interest in Farming

Posted On: 21 MAR 2023 6:13PM by PIB Delhi

The percentage of workers in the usual status engaged in agriculture and allied sector as per Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2021-22 released by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) are as under:           

Year

Distribution of workers in the usual status engaged in agriculture and allied sector (%)

2019-20

45.56

2020-21

46.46

2021-22

45.46

                                 

Further, Government has taken several policies, reforms, developmental programmes and schemes for making agriculture more profitable profession. These include:                                                                                                                                  

  1. Supplementary income transfers under PM-KISAN of Rs 6000 per year in three equal instalments.
  2. Increase in Minimum Support Price (MSPs) for all Kharif & Rabi crops ensuring a minimum of 50 percent of profit margin on the cost of production,
  3. Crop insurance under Pradhan Mantri FasalBimaYojna (PMFBY),
  4. Better access to irrigation under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY),
  5. Special attention for creation of infrastructure through Agri Infrastructure Fund (AIF) with a size of Rs. 100,000 crore,
  6. New procurement policy under PM-AASHA in addition to FCI operations,
  7. Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) offering production loan to even dairy & fishery farmers besides agricultural crops,
  8. Formation and promotion of 10,000 FPOs,
  9.  National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), which aims to evolve and implement strategies to make Indian agriculture more resilient to the changing climate.
  10. Adoption of drone technologies in agriculture which has a potential to revolutionize the Indian agriculture.
  11. Benefits accruing under Bee-Keeping, Rashtriya Gokul Mission, Blue Revolution, Interest Subvention Scheme, agro-forestry, restructured bamboo mission, implementation of new generation watershed guidelines, etc
  12. Focus on application of digital technology at all stages of agricultural value chain.
  13. Supply of fertilizer to farmer at subsidized price so as to reduce input cost.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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(Release ID: 1909212)
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