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Agriculture needs a separate budget -B Yerram Raju

-The Hindu Business Line

Agriculture is too diverse a subject for it to be compressed into a sub-section of the regular budgets of the Centre and States

During the last five years, the Budget allocation to agriculture has seen positive shifts consistent with the Centre’s role in research, marketing, exports, and agricultural education. In the light of the farm reform Bills’ repeal, is it not the right time to formulate a separate Budget by each of the States for the sector? Each State should formulate a separate agriculture budget, with the Centre too bringing out a separate agriculture budget, akin to the Railway budget in the past.

Agriculture is a concurrent subject with the Union government taking care of research, marketing, education, and exports while farming per se, and extension are the responsibilities of the States.

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