Budget 2018: Agriculture research budget can increase by 15% to 8,000 crores government

In the current business year of 2018-19, the government can make budget allocation up to Rs 8000 crore by 15 percent for agricultural education, research and expansion

New Delhi: The day the budget is coming to pass, along with this, there is a stir in the Finance Ministry. The budget session will start from January 29 and the general budget for the financial year 2018-19 will be presented on February 1.

Agriculture will be more emphasis The
government can make budget allocation up to Rs 8000 crore by 15 per cent for the agri-education, research and expansion in the current business year of 2018-19. Sources say that the government is taking many steps in view of achieving the goal of doubling the income of agriculture sector. The increase in agricultural research budget will also be done under this.

Sources said, "For the purpose of agricultural education, research and expansion, the budget allocation is increased by 10 percent annually over the last few years. We hope that the Department of Agriculture Research and Education will allocate 15% more budget in the next financial year.

This amount will be used in priority areas. This will try to solve major problems in front of agriculture sector. According to sources, this will enable us to move towards the goal of doubling the income of farmers through technology.

In the financial year 2017-18, the government initially allocated 6800 crores for Dair. Dare works under the Ministry of Agriculture. Apart from this, additional allocation was done through grant demands, which resulted in the total budget allocation of Dair reached Rs 7000 crore. The 90 percent budget allocation issued by Dair has so far been spent. The rest will be spent in the remaining period of the financial year.