Prime Minister Narendra Modi engages with farmers in a Krishi program at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, in New Delhi.|Picture Credit: @NarendraModi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday introduced 2 significant plans for the farming sector with a combined investment of 35,440 crore, consisting of a pulses objective targeted at lowering import dependence.
The occasion accompanied the birth anniversary of socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan.
He likewise inaugurated jobs valued at over 5,450 crore in the farming, animal husbandry, fisheries, and food processing sectors, while laying the structure stone for extra jobs worth around 815 crore.
The ‘Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses’, with an investment of 11,440 crore, targets at increasing pulses production from the present 252.38 lakh tonne to 350 lakh tonne by the 2030-31 crop year and decreasing the nation’s import dependence.
The 24,000-crore ‘Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana’ goals to change 100 low-performing agri-districts. The plan will concentrate on boosting performance, promoting crop diversity, enhancing watering and storage, and guaranteeing credit gain access to in the choose 100 districts.
The 2 plans, currently authorized by the Cabinet, will be carried out from the upcoming rabi (winter season) season till 2030-31.
Amongst the tasks inaugurated are synthetic insemination training centres in Bengaluru and Jammu and Kashmir, centres of quality at Amreli and Banas, an IVF laboratory in Assam under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, milk powder plants at Mehsana, Indore, and Bhilwara, and a fish feed plant under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana at Tezpur.
Throughout the program, Modi dispersed certificates to farmers accredited under the National Mission for Natural Farming, MAITRI service technicians, and Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) transformed to Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samriddhi Kendras (PMKSKs) and Common Service Centres (CSCs).
The occasion marked crucial turning points attained under federal government efforts, consisting of 50 lakh farmer subscriptions in 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), of which 1,100 FPOs tape-recorded a yearly turnover of over 1 crore in 2024-25.
Other accomplishments consist of the accreditation of 50,000 farmers under the National Mission for Natural Farming, accreditation of 38,000 MAITRIs (Multi-Purpose AI Technicians in Rural India), sanction and operationalisation of over 10,000 multipurpose and e-PACS for computerisation, and the development and fortifying of PACS, dairy, and fishery cooperative societies.
Modi likewise connected with farmers taken part in pulses growing who have actually gained from numerous federal government plans targeted at developing a worth chain-based technique in farming, animal husbandry, and fisheries.
Farming Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, and Minister of State for Agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary existed at the occasion.
Released on October 11, 2025
