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Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-07): The Centre approved the creation of a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore for Agr-Market Infrastructure Fund. (FILE) New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday approved the creation of a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore for Agr-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) for development and upgradation of agricultural marketing infrastructure in Gramin Agricultural Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets. The AMIF will be created with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). It will help provide state governments subsidised loans to develop marketing infrastructure in 585 Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and 10,000 Grameen Agricultural Markets (GrAMs).
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-07): The Centre has taken an initiative for the development and upgradation of agricultural marketing infrastructure. The government has now approved the creation of a corpus of Rs. 2,000 crore for Agr-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) for development and upgradation of agricultural marketing infrastructure in Gramin Agricultural Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets. The AMIF will be created with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). It will provide state government subsidized loans which will help in developing marketing infrastructure in 585 Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and 10,000 Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). However, states may also access the AMIF for innovative integrated market infrastructure projects like 'Hub and Spoke' mode and in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-08): Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund - 08 Feb 2019 - 3 min read Recently, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a corpus of Rs. 2,000 crore for Agri Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) to be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of agricultural marketing infrastructure in rural agricultural markets. - The Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund was announced in 2018 Budget for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22,000 Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) and 585 Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC).
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-08-30): The Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) is a pioneering initiative launched in partnership with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). It aims to enhance and modernize the agricultural marketing infrastructure in Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) and Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) markets. Under the stewardship of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW), Government of India, this scheme plays a pivotal role in empowering the agrarian sector. The creation of AMIF was approved in 2019 by the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The fund was created with a corpus of Rs.2000 crore in collaboration with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). This fund is dedicated to the development and upgrade of agricultural marketing infrastructure in 22000 GrAMs and 585 APMCs.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-07): Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) For Prelims and Mains: Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF)- objectives, features and significance. [...] About Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF):
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-08-01): In order to abridge the existing infrastructure gaps and mobilize investment in agriculture infrastructure, Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) was launched under Aatmanirbhar Bharat Package during July 2020. AIF is a medium - long term debt financing facility of Rs. 1 lakh crore to be financed by lending institutions for investment in viable projects for post-harvest management infrastructure and community farming assets. [...] For creation of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) including Scientific Storage and to reduce post-harvest and handling losses, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India is implementing sub-scheme "Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI)" of Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) across the country. It is an open ended, Demand driven and credit linked scheme wherein back ended capital subsidy @ 25% and 33.33% is available based on the eligible category of beneficiary. Assistance is available to Individuals, Farmers, Group of farmers/growers, Agri-preneurs, Registered Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs), Cooperatives, and state agencies etc. Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (Infrastructure and Assets): Projects under this stream will emanate from State Agriculture Infrastructure Development Programme (ASIDP). This will normally include projects selected on the basis of normative requirement of in infrastructure, actual availability thereof and the gap in agriculture infrastructure in the state viz. setting up of laboratories and testing facilities, storage including cold-storages, mobile vans, agricultural marketing etc.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-14): What are Grameen Agriculture Markets?
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2021-01-22): 1. Focus on ensuring increased credit flows to animal husbandry, dairy, and fisheries 2. Enhancing the allocation to the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund from Rs 30,000 crores to Rs 40,000 crores 3. Propose to double the Micro Irrigation Fund corpus by another Rs 5,000 crores 4. ‘Operation Green Scheme’ that is presently applicable to tomatoes, onions, and potatoes, will be enlarged to include 22 perishable products 5. 1,000 more mandis will be integrated with e-NAM 6. The Agriculture Infrastructure Fund would be made available to APMCs for augmenting their infrastructure facilities 1. 16 action points 2. Committed to the goal of doubling farmers' incomes by 2022 3. Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2016 4. Model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2017 5. Model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Contract Farming and Services (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2018 6. Proposing comprehensive measures for one hundred water stressed districts 7. Provide 20 lakh farmers for setting up stand-alone solar pumps 8. Help another 15 lakh farmers solarise their grid-connected pump sets. [...] 2. An Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs 2000 crore will be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22,000 Grameen Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) and 585 APMCs. [...] 2. Rs 25,000 crore in 2015-16 to the corpus of Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) set up in NABARD.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Gramin Agricultural Market (GrAMs) [...] Inthe Union Budget 2018-19announcement it was stated that theexisting 22,000 rural haatswould be developed and upgradedinto Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). In these GrAMs, physical infrastructure will be strengthened using MGNREGS and other Government Schemes.[i] [...] - Government has announced to set up of an Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs. 2000 crore for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22000 Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) and 585 Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs).[ix] This fund will be utilized for development of GrAMs (Rs. 1000 crore) and strengthening/promotion of eNAM (Rs. 1000 crore).[x]
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-06): CCEA approves creation of Agri-Market infrastructure fund for development and upgradation of Gramin Agriculture Markets Corpus of Rs. 2000 crore to be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of Gramin Agricultural Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets [...] The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gave its approval for the creation of a corpus of Rs. 2000 crore for Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) to be created with NABARD for development and up-gradation of agricultural marketing infrastructure in Gramin Agricultural Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-06): NEW DELHI: The union cabinet Wednesday approved creation of a Rs 2,000-crore Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) for development and upgradation of rural agriculture markets. The corpus of Rs 2,000 crore will be created with [...] "The CCEA has given its approval for the creation of a corpus of Rs 2000 crore for Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) to be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of agriculture marketing infrastructure in gramin agriculture markets and regulated wholesale markets," the statement said. It further said AMIF will provide the state/UT governments subsidised loans for their proposal for developing marketing infrastructure in 585 Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and 10,000 villages.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-07): The fund, titled "Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund", will essentially go into creating better wholesale markets. It was cleared by the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs, chaired by PM Modi and comes at a time the government is trying to boost farm prices. The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of a fund for developing farm-markets, which will be used to upgrade existing rural agriculture markets, an official statement said. A corpus of Rs 2,000 crore will be set up at NABARD, an organisation that procures and trades farm items on behalf of government. The fund, titled "Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF)", will essentially go into creating better wholesale markets. It was cleared by the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It comes at a time the government is trying to boost farm prices, which includes measures to fix the acquisition chain.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-07): Corpus of Rs. 2000 crore to be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of Gramin Agricultural Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gave its approval for the creation of a corpus of Rs. 2000 crore for Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) to be created with NABARD for development and up-gradation of agricultural marketing infrastructure in Gramin Agricultural Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets. AMIF will provide the State/UT Governments subsidized loan for their proposal for developing marketing infrastructure in 585 Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and 10,000 Grameen Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). States may also access AMIF for innovative integrated market infrastructure projects including Hub and Spoke mode and in Public Private Partnership mode. In these GrAMs, physical and basic infrastructure will be strengthened using MGNREGA and other Government Schemes.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-07): The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved creation of a Rs 2,000-crore Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) for development and upgradation of rural agriculture markets. [...] "The CCEA has given its approval for the creation of a corpus of Rs 2000 crore for Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) to be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of agriculture marketing infrastructure in Gramin Agriculture Markets and Regulated Wholesale Markets," the statement said. It further said AMIF will provide the state/UT governments subsidised loans for their proposal for developing marketing infrastructure in 585 Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and 10,000 villages.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-09-25): * Online, Competitive, Transparent Bidding System with 1.74 crore farmers and 2.39 lakh traders put in place under the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Scheme. * A new sub-scheme of PM Matsya Sampada Yojana with a targeted investment of Rs. 6,000 crore (US$ 729 million) to be launched to further enable activities of fishermen, fish vendors, and MSEs, improve value chain efficiencies and expand the market.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2021-12-07): Experts had said at the time improving agricultural marketing infrastructure and increasing the number of APMCs in the country was the need of the hour, rather than what the government had done. [...] The haats may be upgraded into rural level agri-market platforms and be kept outside the ambit of the State Marketing Act, so as to enable them to directly link the farm gate with wholesale terminal markets, national and international. These would also support local retail between farmers and consumers, and direct marketing to supply retail requirements at terminal markets. [...] He had added that an Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund, with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore will be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22,000 GrAMs and 585 APMCs.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-09-18): An RTI revealed that as on January 19, 2021, there is only one state that has submitted its report to avail the facility. In response to an RTI filed by the writer, the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare on January 19 confirmed that the states are being persuaded, however, so far there is only one state (Gujarat) that has submitted its Detailed Project Report (DPR) to avail the assistance under Agri-Marketing Infrastructure Fund (AMIF). The application is being processed. [...] To remove this hurdle, the DFI Committee recommended to set up about 30,000 markets across the country. These include both retail and wholesale markets. Under this, the committee recommended to establish existing 22,000 local haats as Primary Retail Agricultural Markets (PRAMs). These local haats are the centres where local people assemble on certain days at a regular interval. These haats are located at distance of 5-6 kilometers of the farm gates, the committee said. [...] Taking a leaf from the DFI committee which submitted its report in 2018, erstwhile finance minister Jaitley had announced, "We will develop and upgrade existing 22,000 rural haats into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). In these GrAMs, physical infrastructure will be strengthened using MGNREGA and other government schemes. These GrAMs, electronically linked to e-NAM and exempted from regulations of APMCs, will provide farmers facility to make direct sale to consumers and bulk purchasers." He also announced Rs. 20 billion (Rs. 2,000 crore) of Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) for the purpose.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-02-01): Upgrading local agri markets, expanding e-NAM network Jaitley announced a total of 22,000 rural haats will be upgraded for the benefit of small farmers. These will be turned into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) where farmers can sell their produce directly to consumer and bulk purchasers. The government also plans to strengthen physical infrastructure at these local agri markets through MGNREGA and other government schemes. Employing technology to help farmers, the e-NAM network will be strengthened and expanded to all Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMCs) by March 2018. e-NAM is an electronic trading portal for farmers, connected to all state market committees. An Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund of Rs 2000 crore will be set up for developing these 22,000 GrAMs and 585 APMCs.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-03-20): Key elements of the business-support package are various financial sector measures for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and non-bank financial companies, whereas additional support to farmers will mainly be in the form of providing concessional credit to farmers, as well as a credit facility for street vendors. Agricultural sector support is mainly for infrastructure development. On February 1, 2021 the central government budget for FY2021/22 was tabled in the parliament. The budget expanded spending on health and wellbeing, including a provision for the country's COVID-19 vaccination program (350 billion Rs). In April 2021, in response to the recent surge in infections, the central government announced that free food grains will be provided to 800 million individuals in May and June (with a cost of about 260 billion rupees), similar to the additional food rations provided in 2020 (which had expired in November 2020). The central government also extended a scheme for providing interest-free loans to states for capital expenditure to FY2021/22 (150 billion rupees) and expedited the release of Disaster Response Fund to state governments (from June to May). Finally, customs duties and other taxes on vaccines, oxygen and oxygen-related equipment were waived to boost their availability.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-06): Cabinet approves setting up of Rs 2,000 crore agricultural market fund to develop rural markets [...] The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of a Rs 2,000-crore Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund, with a view to upgrade and develop rural markets for agricultural goods. The fund will be used to provide states and Union territory governments with subsidised loans, to develop marketing infrastructure in 585 Agricultural Produce Market Committees and 10,000 villages, an official press release said. The Centre said states can also access the fund for "innovative integrated market infrastructure projects" through public-private partnership and other modes. However, the disbursal of funds will be dependent on the demands and proposals received from the states, the press release added.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-10-09): - Setting up of Fishery and Aquaculture fund and Animal Husbandry fund with total corpus of Rs 10000 crore. [...] - Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs.2000 crore - Allocation for Ministry of Food Processing doubled to Rs.1400 crore - Loans to Women Self Help Groups will increase to Rs. 75,000 crores in 2019 from 42,500 crores last year. [...] Operation Green - It will be launched with an allocation of Rs 500 crore on the lines of Operation Flood. It aims to promote farmer producers organisations, processing facilities, agri-logistics and professional management. It also aims to aid farmers and help control and limit erratic fluctuations in the prices of tomatoes, onions and potatoes (TOP). It is essentially price fixation scheme that aims to ensure farmers are given the right price for their produce. The idea behind it is to double the income of farmers by the end of 2022.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-02-01): Rs.2000 Crore fund to be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22000 grams and 585 APMCS [...] Shri Jaitley said that in the last Budget, the Government had announced strengthening of e-NAM and to expand coverage of e-NAM to 585 APMCs. Out of that, 470 APMCs have been connected to e-NAM network and rest will be connected by March, 2018. Further, an Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs.2000 crore will be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22000 Grameen Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) and 585 APMCs, the Minister informed. [...] Announcing a major step to help small and marginal farmers in fisheries and animal husbandry sector to meet their working capital needs, the Finance Minister extended the facility of Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) to the sector. This would give benefit of crop loan and interest subvention, so far available to agriculture sector only under KCC, for rearing of cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep poultry and fisheries. Further, the Finance Minister also announced setting up of a Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FAIDF) for fisheries sector and an Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) for financing infrastructure requirement of animal husbandry sector. Total Corpus of these two new Funds would be Rs.10,000 crore.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-01-27): A ~2,000-crore fund to set up a chain of modern markets for farmers, announced in the Union Budget 2018-19, has largely gone unspent in what experts see as a sign of how overregulated agricultural markets have kept farmers chained to outdated policies. [...] The Union budget 2018-19 allocated a dedicated ~2,000-crore fund known as the Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF). Newly developed markets under the programme were to be known as Gramin Agricultural Markets or GRAMS. [...] Yet, according to the government’s Doubling of Farmers’ Income Report, 2017, the average income of an agricultural household during July 2012 to June 2013 was as low as ~6,426 against an average monthly consumption expenditure of ~6,223. Farmers can profit when they have ready access to markets. According to the agriculture ministry’s guidelines issued for the now languishing Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund on March 9, 2019, the proposed upgraded markets would have "substantially enhanced market accessibility" for socially disadvantaged Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe farmers. Some of the blame for the lack of progress must go to scheme’s design, experts said. The money for physical infrastructure was to have been utilised from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Scheme.
Claim: Rs. 2000 crore for agri-market infrastructure fund set up. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-02-19): The 2018-19 budget speech makes a mention of an ‘Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund’ with a corpus of Rs. 2000 crores that will be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22000 Grameen Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) and 585 APMCs. [...] The cabinet approved for the Agri-Market Infrastructure fund recently in February 2019. The budgetary allocation to the fund is however not clear. [...] Fact: An Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs. 2000 crore is targeted to be set up for developing and upgrading agricultural marketing infrastructure in the 22000 GrAMs including 585 Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs). The cabinet approved for the Agri-Market Infrastructure fund recently in February 2019. The budgetary allocation to the fund is however not clear and the Rs. 2000 crore is not the government’s budgetary support. Hence the claim is MISLEADING.