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Pumping up productivity

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Pumping up productivity
Team BS / New Delhi February 28, 2006
Proposing a step up of Rs 1,494 crores over the revised estimates for 2005-06 in the Central Plan outlay for agriculture and allied activities, finance minister P Chidambaram identified four sectors as the thrust areas for higher investment -- irrigation, credit, diversification and creation of market for agricultural produce.

The total outlay for irrigation in 2006-07 had been increased to Rs 7,121 crores, including the Centre

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First Published: Feb 28 2006 | 8:52 PM IST

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