{"id":302571,"date":"2018-09-12T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302571"},"modified":"2018-09-12T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:45:50","slug":"cabinet-approves-pm-aasha-to-assure-remunerative-crop-prices-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cabinet-approves-pm-aasha-to-assure-remunerative-crop-prices-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves PM-AASHA to assure remunerative crop prices to farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/cabinet-approves-pm-aasha-to-assure-remunerative-crop-prices-to-farmers\/pm-aasha\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302572\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302572 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-696x540.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-1068x828.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha-542x420.jpg 542w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/PM-aasha.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a>Cabinet meeting, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 12 announced a Rs 15,053-crore procurement policy named &#8216;Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan&#8217; or PM-AASHA, \u00a0allowing the states to choose a compensation scheme and rope in private traders or agencies for procurement to ensure remunerative prices to farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PM-AASHA is an umbrella scheme which is comprised of three sub-schemes that includes Price Support Scheme (PSS), Price Deficiency Payment Scheme or Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana, and piloted Private Procurement and Stockist Scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Government statement reads that the Centre has made a provision of Rs 16,550 crore as a bank guarantee for its agencies to directly procure from farmers under PSS, while the budgetary allocation for PM-AASHA has been raised to Rs 15,053 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh while addressing media said, &#8220;The PM-AASHA is aimed at ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce as announced in the Union Budget 2018. This is a historic decision.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that the Cabinet also decided to give an additional government guarantee of Rs 16,550 crore for procurement, taking the total to Rs 45,550 crore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet meeting, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 12 announced a Rs 15,053-crore procurement policy named &#8216;Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan&#8217; or PM-AASHA, \u00a0allowing the states to choose a compensation scheme and rope in private traders or agencies for procurement to ensure remunerative prices to farmers. The PM-AASHA is an umbrella scheme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4962,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302577,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302571\/revisions\/302577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}