TN’s first agriculture budget dedicated to protesting farmers: Panneerselvam

Panneerselvam

Tamil Nadu's Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare MRK Panneerselvam on Saturday, presenting the state's first budget for agriculture, said it is dedicated to the farmers protesting in Delhi against the three farms laws of the central government. The DMK government headed by Chief Minister MK Stalin had announced that a separate budget for agriculture will be presented by the government earlier.

"There are more challenges viz., decrease in cropped area due to conversion of agricultural lands into real estate, depletion in soil nutrition, declining of water resources due to over-exploitation; reluctance among youngsters to take up farming, deprivation of remunerative price for agricultural produce, enhanced cost of cultivation, post-harvest loss, etc. Farmers are shouldering these hard challenges in agriculture like Atlas," he said. According to Panneerselvam, a total of Rs 34,220.65 crore has been allocated for the agriculture and allied sectors for the year 2021-22.

Meanwhile, former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam said that the DMK party, which came to power on the campaign theme ‘towards a new dawn', has with its first budget pushed the people in Tamil Nadu "towards frustration". Comparing the budget presented by Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan with the DMK's poll manifesto, it is clear the party has cheated the people, he said, adding that despite knowing the financial situation of the state government, the DMK party made false promises to capture power.

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