#TNBudgetLive: Mobile phone-based automatic pumpset controllers to help 3,000 farmers in the state with 50% subsidy assistance upto Rs 5,000 per unit at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore. This will save farmers from threat of snakes at nights.
#TNBudgetLive: 4,000 herbal home gardens will be promoted with a financial outlay of Rs 1 crore. Required planting materials will be supplied from State horticulture farms.
#TNBudgetLive: Farmers will be encouraged to cultivate high value, short duration crops as alternative to low value crops after harvesting field crops. The scheme will be implemented in 20,000 acres at Rs 16 crore.
#TNBudgetLive: Tamil Nadu State Seed Development Agency will produce 30,000 MTs of certified seeds of paddy, pulses and oil seeds and distribute it to farmers during 2022-23.
#TNBudgetLive: Speaker M Appavu urges the AIADMK members to listen to the Budget speech. Speaker offers to provide them opportunity to raise issues after the Budget presentation
#TNBudgetLive: AIADMK MLAs create ruckus in the House in protest of the DVAC raid at former minister S P Velumani's house and arrest of former fisheries minister D Jayakumar.