Mukhyamantri Bagayat Vikas Mission:
Launched By: Gujarat
Aim: To double the income of farmers involved in medicinal and horticulture farming.
Under this mission, a tax on land conversion will be waived off.
The applicant will need to pay one-time charge as security deposit of ₹2,500. The scheme provides handholding and financial relief for the applicant, who will not need to pay rent for the initial five years. For the subsequent years, the basic rent will be ₹100 per acre, which will increase to ₹500 per acre over the years
Artificial intelligence for Agricultural Innovation (AI4AI) Programme:
Launched By: Telangana
It has been launched in collaboration with the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, India (C4IR), World Economic Forum.
Aim: To identify high impact use cases of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which would benefit both the farmers and the policy-makers
Krishak Durghatna Kalyan Yojana:
Launched By: Uttar Pradesh
Aim: To provide financial assistance to family of farmers who died or become handicapped while working in fields.
Key Features:
• It offers financial assistance of five lakh rupees.
• It will cover farmers and their family members in the age group of 18-70 years.
Kisan Asan Kist Yojana:
Launched By: Uttar Pradesh
Key Features:
- Under the scheme farmers will be able to pay the due electricity bills of their tube wells in easy installments.
- Farmers can pay their bill in six installments.
- After all the installments have been made, farmer’s interest will be forgiven.
- Benefits of the scheme are only for those farmers who pay their electricity bills on time.
Saat Pagala Khedut Kalyan na Yojana:
Launched By: Gujarat
Aim: Saat Pagala Khedut Kalyan na Yojana’ aims to make the farmers and cattle breeders of
Gujarat self-reliant.
Key Features:
- Under this scheme, the government will provide financial aid of 400 crores to 1.25 lakh
farmers per day. - With this assistance, in the next three months, the storage capacity in the state’s
warehouses will be increased by 2.32 lakh tons and crop waste will be prevented.
Choker Alo’:
Launched By: West Bengal
Aim: To provide free eye care services and free cataract surgery to all, including farmers
Anganphou Hunba (Early Paddy Crop) Programme:
Launched By: Manipur
Aim: To provide irrigation water by the Minor Irrigation Department to places having adequate arable land and large number of farmers
YSR Jala Kala Scheme:
Launched By: Andhra Pradesh
Aim: To dig borewells and provide motors at free of cost to small and marginal farmers who do not have open sources for irrigation.
