Agriculture focus, atmanirbharta in pulses: What Budget 2025 brings for farmers

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her eighth consecutive Union Budget successful Parliament connected Saturday, February 1, 2025, announcing respective schemes to boost the agriculture assemblage on with the important determination to motorboat Dhan Dhanya Krishi Scheme successful debased yielding districts.

She besides said the authorities volition springiness benefits to 1.7 crore farmers from the cultivation program. To beforehand prosperity successful agrarian areas, policies volition beryllium formulated successful collaboration with states.

Here are immoderate cardinal plans the FM announced successful her speech:

• Pulse Production Mission: A 6-year peculiar ngo to boost accumulation of tur, urad, and masoor, with cardinal agencies procuring these crops implicit 4 years
• Makhana Board: Establishment of a Makhana Board successful Bihar to guarantee just pricing for makhana farmers
• Vegetable and Fruit Production: A associated program with states to summation rootlike and effect production
• Cotton Production Mission: A 5-year peculiar ngo to boost fabric production
• Kisan Credit Card Limit: Increase successful Kisan Credit Card bounds to astir Rs 5 lakh
• New Urea Plant: Setup of a caller urea works successful Assam to supply affordable and prime urea to farmers

Meanwhile, Sitharaman besides emphasised initiating reforms successful 6 domains are taxation, municipality development, mining, fiscal sector, powerfulness and regulatory reforms.