Budget 2020: FM Sitharaman announces 16-point action plan for agriculture

The lot of the farmer has improved little, with various states having cumulatively written off a whopping Rs 4.7 lakh crore of farm loans in the past one decade, which is 82 per cent of the industry-level bad loans. The government is committed to doubling farmers’ income by 2022 and the budget aims to boost the income […]