The farming community has been ignored in the Union budget presented in Parliament on Tuesday for financial year 2022-23, feel experts, terming it ‘lacklustre’ as far as the peasantry is concerned.
“There’s an outlay of ₹2.37-lakh crore for the procurement of wheat and paddy, which is less than the last year’s allocation. How can the government say it wants to double farmers’ income when the MSP is offered only for wheat and paddy,” says food and agriculture policy analyst Devinder Sharma, adding that Punjab being an agrarian state has been completely ignored. “There is no package for crop diversification. The […]
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