| कृषि एवं किसान कल्याण मन्त्रालय Kr̥ṣi ēvaṁ Kisāna Kalyāṇa Mantrālaya | |
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 Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare | |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of India |
| Headquarters | Krishi Bhavan Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road New Delhi |
| Annual budget | ₹127,036 crore (US$15 billion) (2024-25 est.)[2] |
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| Website | agriwelfare |
TheMinistry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (कृषि एवं किसान कल्याण मन्त्रालयKr̥ṣi ēvaṁ Kisāna Kalyāṇa Mantrālaya), formerly theMinistry of Agriculture, is a branch of theGovernment of India and the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws related to agriculture in India. The three broad areas of scope for the Ministry are agriculture,food processing and co-operation. The agriculture ministry is headed by theMinister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare which is currently held byShivraj Singh Chouhan.Kailash Choudhary andShobha Karandlaje are the Ministers of State.Sharad Pawar, serving from 22 May 2004 to 26 May 2014, has held the office ofMinister of Agriculture for the longest continuous period till date.
Department of Revenue and Agriculture and Commerce was set up in June 1871 to deal with all the agricultural matters in India. Until this ministry was established, matters related to agriculture were within the portfolio of the Home Department.[3]
In 1881, Department of Revenue and Agriculture was set up to deal with combined portfolios of education, health, agriculture, revenue. However, In 1947, Department of Agriculture was redesignated as Ministry of Agriculture.[3]
The Ministry of Agriculture was renamed as the Ministry for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare on 15 August 2015, to take care of farming community needs.[4]
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare consists of the following two departments.[5]
The administrative head of the Ministry is the Secretaries of the two departments.
A leading program of the Ministry is theRashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, which was launched in 2007 on the recommendations of theNational Development Council of India. This program sought to improve the overall state of agriculture in India by providing stronger planning, better coordination, and greater funding to improve productivity and overall output. The total budget for this program in 2009-10 was just over INR 38,000 crore.[8]
Krishi Megh (National Agricultural Research and Education System-Cloud Infrastructure and Services) is a data recovery center ofIndian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the premier agricultural research organization of the Government of India. It will help in protecting the precious data of ICAR. It has been set up atNational Academy of Agricultural Research and Management,Hyderabad. The portal aims at providing the high-quality and latest information in the agricultural sector to the stakeholders and also aims to provide relevant information to agricultural university students. It has been launched under the Government of India andWorld Bank's Jointly funded project called National agricultural higher education project (NAHEP).[9]
The Ministry publishes an annual report titled "Agricultural Statistics at a Glance". This gives a detailed picture of the state of India's agriculture including demographics of the agrarian sector, crop production (including state-wise and crop-wise break-ups), rural economic indicators such as credit, etc. The latest report has been published for 2014.[10]
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