Trade bodies in Madurai see proactive schemes in the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Budget 2024-25, a boon for the farmers in the State, while farmers feel disappointed as their demands have not been heard.
The agriculture budget has widely focused on schemes for soil fertility, organic farming, area expansion for cultivation of agriculture products, encouraging production of agri value-added products and agri exports, said a statement of the Agro Food Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
“Subsidy to purchase paddy mobile dryers to farmers and FPOs is a scheme which addresses the problem of farmers selling their produce in the farm heads with high moisture for low price. Implementation of this scheme is sure to increase the income of farmers,” said S. Rethinavelu, president of the Agro Food Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
