Center Approves ₹2,817 Crore Digital Agriculture Mission

The Centre on Monday approved the digital agriculture mission worth ₹2,817 crore, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced.

The minister announced that the cabinet has approved seven major decisions to enhance farmers’ lives and income. The first is the Digital Agriculture Mission, modeled after the Digital Public Infrastructure for agriculture. With a total investment of ₹2,817 crores, this mission will build on successful pilot projects.

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Other big announcements in Digital Agriculture Mission

Vaishnaw also made other crucial announcements after the briefing. “Second (decision) is related to food and nutritional security, in which scientific inputs were received on how to make our farmers ready by 2047 keeping in mind climate resilient crop sciences, and food security and nutritional security. Six pillars have been kept in this programme worth ₹3,979 crore,” PTI quoted the minister as saying.

Another major scheme worth ₹860 crore was cleared by the Cabinet for sustainable development for horticulture. Other decisions taken by the Cabinet pertain to strengthening Krish Vigyan Kendra ( ₹1,202 crore), and Natural Resource Management ( ₹1,115 crore).

The government also cleared a ₹1,702-cr scheme for sustainable livestock health, production. 

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