Charting a new growth path: Budget sets sights on greener pastures

Challenges 

- Uncertain rainfall remains a significant challenge, besides new weather vagaries such as heatwaves 

- While employment in agriculture remains very high in India, its contribution to the economy has been steadily declining 

 

  Takeaways

  - Boosting agriculture and the rural economy is expected to ease the rural distress  

- Agriculture expenditure is set to rise by 22 per cent in FY26 from the RE of FY25, while rural spending will see a 40 per cent increase over the same period