Interim Budget 2019 to focus on doubling farmers' income: Agri Minister

Radha Mohan Singh says govt is planning to connect 200 mandis with eNAM this year and 225 next year, to enable farmers to sell their produce hassle-free online

The interim Union Budget scheduled for presentation in the Parliament on February 1 will be dedicated to farmers as a government’s commitment to double farmers’ income by 2022, Union Agricultural Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on the sidelines of a conference in Mumbai on Wednesday.

In Budget 2018, the Union Cabinet had approved a new umbrella scheme, the “Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan’ (PM-AASHA), to ensure remunerative prices for farm produce. In this process, the government increased the minimum support price to 1.5 times the production cost.

The government has introduced several farmer-friendly schemes the