Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has made many innovations in the interest of the farmers of the State to make agriculture profitable and to double the income of farmers.
Agriculture sector will have a significant involvement in the creation of Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh. The Government is making efforts to increase agricultural production, reduce cost of production, providing fair prices for agricultural produce and adequate compensation to farmer for crop loss in case of natural calamity or other situation.
With the support of the government, farmers of the State have set a record mainly in wheat production. Madhya Pradesh are pioneers in the country in procurement of wheat.
Amending the Krishi Upaj Mandi Adhiniyam in the interest of farmers, provision of e-trading was made and the farmers were provided facility to sell crops through the procurement centre as well as through the authorized private procurement center and deal sheet arrangement of the market.
An amount of more than Rs 33,000 crores was transferred to the accounts of farmers for the procurement of wheat, paddy and other crops.
Farmers of Madhya Pradesh are getting the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, under which Rs 6 thousand are given to farmers every year. In this series, the Mukhya Mantri Kisan Kalyan Samman Nidhi Yojana was started and the government of Madhya Pradesh started giving Rs 4,000 per year to farmers in two equal installments. In this way, farmers are now getting Kisan Samman Nidhi of a total of Rs 10,000 per annum.
The State Government provided relief to the farmers by depositing the pending premium of Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme to provide relief to farmers for their crop loss due to natural calamity or under any other circumstances. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan filled the pending premium of the insurance scheme as soon as he came to power and the affected farmers were provided crop insurance money. During the critical situation of lockdown, 1.29 crore tonnes of wheat was purchased from 16 lakh farmers and an amount of more than Rs 27,000 crores was transferred to their accounts.
Relief was provided to the farmers by restarting the loan scheme at zero percent interest to the farmers. For this, an amount of Rs 800 crore was also made available to the co-operative banks, so that the co-operative banks can easily provide agricultural loans to the farmers.