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What did #famers get in #Budget, where @nsitharaman claimed, "Our Govt is committed to the goal of doubling farmers income by 2022"

P.S-Acc to Dalwai committee,"real income of farmer, should increase by 10.4%/year,which has been increasing less than 2.5% in last 5 years

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA Govt allocates 9.3% of the budget to #Agri, allied,irrigation & #rural development, which was 9.8% last year. Factoring Inflation, Real Increase in allocation is actually negative.

Is this enough ?
Will this increase #farm income, prop up #rural demand ?

@mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon Govt allocated 1.58 lakh crore to #agri, allied sectors & irrigation i.e. 5.2% of the total budget. Last years budget had allocated 1.52 lakh crore, which was 5.45% of the budget i.e. reduced spending !

👉Will this double #farm income by 2022 ?🙄
@rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar .@nsitharaman slashes #Food #subsidy from from 1.84 lakh crore (2019-20) B.E to 1.15 lakh crore (2020-21) B.E !

#FCI already owes 2 lakh crore to #NSSF, how will it function ? Seems, #Modi Govt wants to shut FCI, stop #MSP procurement & the #PDS ! #Farmers
@kapsology @jamewils

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils Market Intervention Scheme & Price Support Scheme
allocation was 3000 crore in #Budget2019. This has been scaled down to 2000 crore in #Budget2020

👉Stifling money for the scheme, which directly helps the #farmers realize Min Support Prices does not make sense.🤨
@sayantanbera

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils How will the #white revolution take place, when @nsitharaman cuts back on allocations from 2240 crore to 1805 crore #milk @Rssamul

#PM-AASHA scheme, which was served as a tool to ensure MSP's to #farmers, allocation also cut from 1,500 crore to 500 crore in #Budget2020
@nistula

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula #Agri Credit increased from 87000 Crore in 2003 to 15 Lakh Cr in #BudgetSession2020 But what about financial inclusion of #farmers, as just 41% of small & marginal farmers avail credit from Schedule Commercial Banks. Who will address this ? What about the fundamentals ?
@ikaveri

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri Many expected that Govt will get the point, that money in the hands of people will spur "demand". But, #PMKISAN allocations were kept the same i.e. Rs 75000 crore, while 54,370 crore was spent last year, & #MGNREGS allocation increased by a paltry 1500 Cr. Sigh !
@sushmitadevinc

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc Unspent Money in #Budget 2019 #Agri:-

PM-AASHA=1179 Crore
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Man Dhan Yojna=700 Cr
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana=1467.20 Cr
Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna=985 Cr
National Mission on Horticulture=642 Cr
Market Intervention Scheme+Price Support Scheme=990 Cr

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc Unspent Money #agri:-

Pulse distribution scheme=430 Crore
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojna=359.15 Cr
Interest subsidy to #farmers=137 Cr
National Food Security Mission=223.1 Cr
National Project on Soil Health & Fertility=168.3 Cr Rainfed Area Development & Climate Change=104 Cr

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc Not to forget, the unspent money in Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi #PMKISAN scheme,out of the allocation of 75000 crore only 54370.15 crore was spent in 2019. In the 1-year period, only 3.85 crore #farmers received all d 3 instalments of Rs 2000 each that they were entitled to

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc MGNREGA allocation increased by only 2.5% to 61,500 crore while the revised estimate–what Govt estimates it will spend by Mar 2020– for 2019-20 is 71,000 crore. So, effectively, #Budget has allocated less than what it expects to spend this year.

Will this propel demand?
@mkvenu1

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc At last some good news for #farmers in #BudgetSession2020 ! Cooperative societies will be treated equal to corporates by reducing Income Tax from 30% to 22%.

👉This move will help Co-op's increase profits, & will benefit farmers, only if these profits are shared with #farmers.

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc Welcome Step

Govt plans to involve Youth in 3477 SagarMitras and 500 Fish Farmer Producer Organisations, plants to encourage fish processing+marketing. By 2022-23, plan to raise fish production to 200 lakh tonnes. Growing of algae, sea-weed and cage Culture will also be promoted

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc Welcome Step to setup "Kisan Rail", add refrigerated coaches in Express & Freight trains, "Kisan Udaan" This will help to build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables. But, the need of the hour was to put money in the hands of the farmers, which has been overlooked

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc #MNREGS would be dovetailed to develop #fodder #farms. Govt aims to double #milk processing capacity from 53.5 million MT to 108 million MT by 2025.

These are welcome steps, if implemented on ground, but they talk about future, while the need was to augment farm #incomes now !

@nsitharaman @_YogendraYadav @aviksahaindia @sayantanbera @seemay @Ghair_Kanooni @Subytweets @sritara @srinivasanravi @DrSarvapriya @RURALINDIA @mkvenu1 @PreetiSMenon @rssurjewala @MonaAmbegaonkar @kapsology @jamewils @Rssamul @nistula @ikaveri @sushmitadevinc But, if Budget allocations will not be spent, then the #Budget means nothing but a Jumla, Eg-Govt allocated 2000 crore in 2018-19 Budget to upgrade 22000 #rural haats #agri #mandis. Its been 2 years & a paltry 10.4 crore was spent on these mandis.

Need to walk the talk @PMOIndia