Tamil Nadu's Agriculture Department receives Rs 47,248 crore in the Interim Budget for 2026-27. Farmer welfare schemes will continue. The g...

A K P Chinraj, the DMK MP from Tamil Nadu, asked whether the government has received legal opinion on implementation of OBC reservation in ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will begin her pre-budget consultations with different stakeholder groups on Wednesday with the first m...

Budget 2021 could have done more for boosting public investment in agriculture and increasing government spending beyond what is incurred o...

"I want to stress on the budget (allocation) for the agriculture sector. The budget allocation for agriculture was Rs 88,811 crore between ...

PK Swain, joint secretary, agriculture ministry said farmers will get farm-related specialised services such as quality check, sorting, gra...

As per the budget statement, basic customs duty rates have been cut on a range of items to offset the impact of the cess on consumers.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman has sought to address the fears of protesting farmers in her budget. She reiterated the government’s commitment to th...

The Finance Minister has presented the budget, which overall did not seem to touch the middle class in any major way. There was an Agricult...

The budget is focused on developing infrastructure in agriculture sector. Narendra Singh Tomar said that the budget has given APMCs access ...

The ministry's revised budget is estimated to be Rs 1,24,519 crore for the ongoing 2020-21 fiscal year, according to the Budget 2021 docume...

Amount paid to farmers for wheat in FY21 was Rs 75,060 crore vs Rs 62,802 crore in FY20, and for paddy in FY21 is seen at Rs 1.72 crore vs ...

Sitharaman further said 1,000 more mandis will be integrated with the electronic national market and the agriculture infrastructure fund wo...

The survey said that adequate storage and remunerative markets for agricultural products should be the main focus of post-production manage...

import cessThe mission may be funded by levying a cess of ₹2,500-3,000 per tonne on import which will generate a corpus of ₹6,000 crore per...

Budget 2021-22 must re-orient expenditure in the right direction to get maximum bang for the buck.

During the April to June 2020, agriculture was the only sector to register growth.