Chhattisgarh Government Transfers Funds Under ‘Krishak Unnati’ Scheme

• 14 Mar 2024

Why in News?

Recently, Chhattisgarh Government launched the ‘Krishak Unnati Yojna’ to provide input assistance to farmers, mainly paddy cultivators and released ₹13,320 crore to 2.472 million farmers under the scheme.

Key Points

• The paddy procurement for the 2023-24 kharif season was held between November 1 and February 4, and around 145 lakh Metric Tonnes (MT) of paddy was procured from over 2.4 million farmers at Minimum Support Price (MSP).
  • The MSP for common grade paddy was ₹2183 per quintal and ₹2203 for Grade A paddy.
  • The difference amount over the MPS was given to farmers as input assistance at the rate of ₹917 per quintal.
• The state government also gave an outstanding paddy bonus for two years (2014-15 and 2015-16) worth ₹3,716 crore to the farmers on the occasion of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday in December 2023.

Note

Rice varieties are classified as 'Grade A' and 'Common' based on shape length:breadth (L:B ratio) for fixing the procurement price of paddy and for trading of milled rice.