Objectives

  • Strengthening the farmers’ efforts, risk mitigation and promoting agri-business entrepreneurship via creation of agri-infrastructure.
  • Provide flexibility and autonomy to states to make plans and execute as per their local needs.
  • To promote value chain addition linked production models that will help farmers increase their income as well as encourage production/productivity.
  • To mitigate risk of farmers with focus on additional income generation activities – like integrated farming, mushroom cultivation, bee keeping, aromatic plant cultivation, floriculture etc.
  • To attend national priorities through several sub-schemes.
  • To empower youth through skill development, innovation and agri-entrepreneurship based agribusiness models that attract them to agriculture.
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