Amendments in Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) scheme for cooperative grain storage plan: revised margin money, costs and subsidies
Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare revises Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure scheme for cooperative grain storage
- The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare amended the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure scheme to align it with the cooperative grain-storage plan.
- The cooperative grain-storage plan was considered in the 2nd Inter-Ministerial Committee meeting held on 23 October 2024.
- Primary Agricultural Credit Societies can receive an additional subsidy for ancillary infrastructure such as internal roads, weighbridges, and boundary walls.
What happened
The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has amended the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) scheme to align it with the cooperative-sector grain storage plan approved in the 2nd Inter-Ministerial Committee meeting on the World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan in the Cooperative Sector held on 23 October 2024. The revision is meant to improve the financial viability of storage construction and related support infrastructure for cooperative institutions.
What changed in the scheme
UPSC can ask about the design of agricultural marketing support, the role of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies in rural storage creation, and the policy trade-off between subsidy support and local implementation capacity. The topic also links post-harvest infrastructure with cooperative-led rural credit and storage systems.
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