PM Narendra Modi announces launch of e-Gopala App & Matsya Sampada Yojana on Thursday

Listing features of Prhan Mantri Matsya Sampa Yojana (PMMSY), PM Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, anunced that scheme will be launched on September 10 - Thursday. He said that scheme would bring investments worth Rs 20,050 crores and said it would dress critical gaps in fisheries sector, boost welfare and create employment. He also anunced launch of e-Gopala App which will be a valuable information portal for farmers.

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PM Modi anunces PMMSY & e-Gopala launch

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Amid nationwide lockdown, Centre, on May 15, rolled out its third tranche of ecomic measures to kickstart ecomy which included three governance and ministrative reforms in agriculture. Amending Essential Commodities act, Centre aimed to enable better price realisation for farmers by attracting investments - making agriculture sector competitive. Agriculture foodstuff including cereals, edible oils, oilseeds, pulses, onions and potato to be deregulated while stock limits were to imposed under extreme conditions.

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Moreover, FM Sitharaman anunced Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm services ordinance, 2020 to provide a framework for protection and empowerment of farmers with reference to sale and purchase of farm products overriding all state APMC laws. ordinance which was promulgated on June 5, 2020, will enable farmers for engaging with processors and aggregators, large retailers, exporters in a transparent way. Most state-based parties are expected to oppose this bill in Parliament. In recently released FY 21 - Q1 figures by Centre, Agriculture sector is only one which grew by 13% due to lockdowns.

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Meanwhile, for fisheries sector, FM anunced PM Matsya Sampa Yojana which allotted Rs 11,000 crore for marine, inland fisheries and agriculture. ditionally, Rs 9000 crore has been allotted for infrastructure including fishing harbours, cold chain, markets etc. government estimates it to le to ditional fish production of 70 lakh tonnes over 5 years and provide 55 lakh people and double exports to Rs 1,00,000 crore. main focus of PMMSY is on Islands, Himalayan states, NE & Aspirational districts.