- The Union Cabinet has approved seven major schemes for the agriculture sector.
- The most significant among these is the Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM), which will create a consolidated database linking multiple platforms and databases across Union Territories, States, Ministries, and Departments. The DAM includes:
- Agri Stack: A registry of farmers, village land maps, and crops.
- Krishi Decision Support System: A comprehensive geospatial setup unifying remote sensing information on crops, soil, weather, and water resources.
- Soil Profile Mapping: Detailed soil profile maps at a 1:10,000 scale for approximately 142 million hectares of agricultural land.
Other approved schemes include:
- Crop Science for Food and Nutritional Security: To prepare farmers for climate resilience and ensure food security by 2047.
- Strengthening Agricultural Education and Research: To prepare students and researchers for current agricultural challenges.
- Sustainable Livestock Health and Production: To increase incomes from livestock and dairy.
- Sustainable Development of Horticulture: To promote various horticulture crops, including tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, root, tuber, bulbous, arid crops, vegetables, floriculture, and mushrooms.
- Krishi Vigyan Kendras: To strengthen agricultural extension centers.
- Natural Resource Management: To enhance sustainable use of natural resources in agriculture.
| Justice Nawab Singh Committee • The Supreme Court has constituted a high-powered committee, chaired by former High Court judge Justice Nawab Singh, to address the grievances of farmers protesting at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana. • A Bench of SC directed the 5-member committee to hold a meeting within a week and urged the protesting farmers to avoid political involvement. • The court expressed hope that with the formation of the neutral committee, agreed upon by both states, farmers would vacate the blocked roads. • The protestors are demanding a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops. |
Dig Deeper: Read about various initiatives of the Government of India to increase production as well as the nutritional value of agricultural produce in recent times.
