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The NDA government has a much better track record than the previous UPA regime in budgetary allocation and spending in the farm sector, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said at the Business Standard Agriculture Round Table On ‘Doubling Farmers Income by 2022’ on Tuesday.
Between 2010-11 and 2013-14, the UPA government made a budgetary provision of Rs 104,337 crore for agriculture, the minister said. However, the current government has allocated Rs 164,415 crore for the sector between 2014-15 and 2017-18, a rise of 57.58 per cent from the previous regime, he elaborated.
He compared the spending figures too. In
