A National Farmer’s Welfare Programme Implementation Society has been registered on 23.12.2019 to operate certain Central Sector Schemes related to farmers’ welfare.

The Department regularly monitors the progress of schemes through meetings with concerned officers of the State Governments/UTs, visits of nodal officers of the Department to the States/UTs, video conferencing, Rabi and Kharif Conferences, etc.  Besides the beneficiary details of different schemes of the Department are uploaded in the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) portal for monitoring and tracking of beneficiaries, etc.  Further, financial assistance extended to the beneficiary is directly credited into their bank accounts through the DBT mode.

This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha today.

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