Govt to give Rs 1L cr income to farmers: Pradhan

February 04, 2021 16:49

The government will provide Rs 1 lakh crore additional income to farmers that will be generated by converting waste into energy, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

He said the heap of waste at Ghazipur will also be cleaned soon to create energy. "We have started the Gobar Dhan scheme. Cow dung, agriculture waste, city waste, forest waste, the carbon in biomass, everything will be converted into energy. In a few days, the heap of waste at Ghazipur will be cleaned up. The energy that we will make from that we are going to give additional income of Rs 1 lakh crore in the accounts of farmers. Income of farmers will double from that," Pradhan said while speaking during a discussion on Motion of Thanks to the President's address.

He said the government has come up with a scheme to procure ethanol worth Rs 20,000 crore which will help increase farmer's income. "We have made a scheme for buying 325 crore litre ethanol in 2020-21. We have started buying that will cost Rs 20,000 crore. This will be 8.5 per cent of requirement. In the coming days we will take it to 20 per cent," Pradhan said.

Attacking the Congress for not bringing a law on minimum support price (MSP) of crops despite being in power for long and yet questioning the present government on this issue, he asserted that the Modi government after coming to power in 2014 has substantially increased the procurement of foodgrains at MSP.

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