Agriculture And Allied Sector Takes Top Slot In The TS Budget For 2024-25 

Hyderabad, July 25 (Maxim News): Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, presenting the full budget for the financial year 2024-25 said that the State government has proposed Rs. 72,659 crore for the agriculture and allied sectors to boost the contribution of the agriculture sector to the state’s GDP.

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Presenting the full budget, the finance minister said that currently, he said the “Agriculture and Allied Sector has a contribution of 15.8 percent to Gross State Value Added (GSVA).  At current prices, the Gross State Value Added of Agriculture and  Allied Sectors has increased by 4 percent in 2023-24 as compared with 2022-23.  

“However, since the sector’s employment stands at 47.3 percent. Layout the government’s policies for the agriculture sector, he said that strengthening the farmers is a prerequisite. For this, he said that farmers have to be provided two kinds of assistance “The first is to provide an assured capital for his investment in agriculture and the second is to provide security and remunerative prices to his crops. Against this backdrop, Congress promised to implement a Farm Loan Waiver of upto Rs. 2 lakh.

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Notwithstanding the financial distress in the state, the state government is systematically garnering the necessary funds of Rs. 31,000 crores needed to implement the scheme.  “On July 18, 2024, the government transferred Rsw. 6,035 crores at a time into the accounts of 11.34 lakh farmers towards loan waiver.  the rest of the loans up to Rs. 2.00 lakhs also will be waived off soon, he added. 

Highlight Of Allocation, Minority Welfare Got Rs. 3003 Crores 

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