Out of the 11 declarations, three concern administration and regulatory changes, including correction of the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955, and agribusiness advertising changes through a Central law.

union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday declared 11 measures for the agribusiness division as a component of the third channel of the administration’s Rs 20 lakh crore Covid-19 alleviation bundle. Be that as it may, a large portion of these measures are either set up as of now or the administration has been talking about these for quite a long while.

Out of the 11 declarations, three concern administration and managerial changes, including alteration of the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955, and agribusiness advertising changes through a Central law. These have been a piece of progressive Union Budgets under the Modi government.

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Sitharaman likewise declared the setting up of a Rs 1 lakh crore Agri Infrastructure Fund; the formalization of Micro Food Enterprises, with a cost of Rs 10,000 crore; an inoculation drive against food and mouth illness among cows; expansion of the Operation Greens from tomatoes, onion and potatoes to all products of the soil; help for anglers through the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana; a Rs 15,000-crore Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund; Rs 4,000 crore for the advancement of homegrown development; and a Rs 500 crore plan to advance beekeeping.