{"id":21899,"date":"2025-02-18T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=21899"},"modified":"2025-02-18T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:50:50","slug":"farmers-welfare-irrigation-get-lions-share-of-indias-agriculture-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/02\/18\/farmers-welfare-irrigation-get-lions-share-of-indias-agriculture-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers welfare, irrigation get lion\u2019s share of India\u2019s agriculture budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rural development\u00a0<\/u><\/a>is the focus of India\u2019s 2025-26 agriculture budget after Agriculture and Farmers Welfare amassed 40% of the departmental budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total national budget of 50.65 trillion rupees<\/u><\/a> ($582.5 billion) focused mainly on infrastructure development and agriculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 17, 2025, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi noted that annual agriculture & allied budget has increased 12%<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The allocation for agriculture & allied sectors is 1.71 trillion rupees ($19.7 billion), according to the government\u2019s site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with the separate rural development, food, and fertilizer budgets, however, all affiliated agriculture budget is over 6 trillion rupees<\/u><\/a> ($69 billion).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers Welfare<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Internally, the Department of Agriculture\u2019s allocation in the 2025-26 year is 378.38 billion rupees ($4.4 billion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside it is the Farmers Welfare office, which has secured 14.7 billion rupees ($169.2 million) or 40% of this departmental amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, the union budget has also offered paddy farmers under the Samruddha Krushak Yojana scheme 60 billion rupees ($690 million). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paddy farming scheme will further help rice farmers sell their crop at a guaranteed 3,100 rupees ($35.65) a quintal (100 kg). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For struggling agriculturalists, the budget has provided 2.02 billion rupees ($23.2 million) via the CM-Kisan program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike other loan disbursement systems, the CM-Kisan scheme is available to farmers who cannot access other funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irrigation<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The water resources department in its part has edged other agricultural sectors with a 14.895 billion-rupee ($171.3 million) allocation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that vital irrigation in a country where 50% of agricultural water comes from groundwater will benefit greatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideally,  the government aims to raise the irrigation target by 1.5 million hectares per year at pace with current kharif area expansion<\/u><\/a>. There is also a 2025-26 master plan where some 277,000 hectares will be put under a special irrigation plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the flood management department has secured 3.86 billion rupees ($44.4 million) for rehabilitation and disaster control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It thus seems like India has raised the bar for farmers welfare and irrigation in its 2025-26 budget. Below are highlights of how farmers and allied have fared in spending in recent budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Spending Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare & allied usually receive 13%<\/u><\/a> of India\u2019s total budget. Internally, farmers welfare and other subsidy programs such as loans make up 73% of the agricultural budget each year. The total 2024-25 budget for the Ministry of Agriculture, including the outlays for Farmers Welfare department, totaled 1.37 trillion rupees<\/u><\/a> ($15.8 billion), a 12% increase y-o-y.  Other departments such as that of agricultural research usually receive a different budgetary allocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the government\u2019s press bureau (PIB<\/u><\/a>), the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare normally spends a little less than yearly estimates.  As such, below is PIB\u2019s spending data for between 2019 and 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial Year<\/strong><\/td>Allocation <\/strong><\/td>Actual Expenditure<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2019-20<\/td>1.09 trillion rupees ($12.5 billion)<\/td>1.02 trillion rupees ($11.7 billion)<\/td><\/tr>
2020-21<\/td>1.24 trillion rupees ($14.3 billion)<\/td>1.16 trillion rupees ($13.3 billion)<\/td><\/tr>
2021-22<\/td>1.26 trillion rupees ($14.5 billion)<\/td>1.23 trillion rupees ($14.1 billion)<\/td><\/tr>
2022-23<\/td>1.18 trillion rupees ($13.6 billion)<\/td>1.1 trillion rupees ($12.7 billion)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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