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IANS | 31 Aug, 2017
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh on
Wednesday said that 30 per cent of his ministry's budget would be
invested on the country's women farmers.
"There will be at least
30 per cent of the budget allocation for women beneficiaries in all
ongoing schemes, programmes and development activities," he said in his
address at the National Consultation of Women Farmers, organised by the
National Commission for Women, UN Women and Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch,
a forum for women farmers' rights.
In the consultation, women
farmers and their collectives from 24 states across India shared a
comprehensive framework for establishing gender responsive laws,
institutions, policies and programmes in the agriculture sector with the
ministry.
Singh said that the ministry would be initiating women
centric activities to ensure benefits of various beneficiary-oriented
programs/schemes reach them.
"We will be focusing on women
self-help group to connect them to micro-credit through capacity
building activities and to provide information and ensuring their
representation in different decision-making bodies," he added.
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