Summary
The plan helps farmers grow more food and try new crops. 🌾
It also helps keep harvested food safe and gives farmers water. 💧
Farmers and helpers learned many new skills. 📚
The plan’s score went up a lot, showing it is working.
Key Points
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The plan is called the Prime Minister Dhan‑Dhaanya Farm Development Scheme.
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It is being used in 100 districts with low farm production.
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Farmers learned new ways to grow and store crops.
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The overall score rose from 22.5 to 38.9 between April and July.
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More than 690,000 farmers and 89,000 helpers got training.
New Words to Learn
9 wordsagricultural
relating to farming and growing food
productivity
how much food a farm can make
diversification
growing different kinds of crops
irrigation
giving water to crops
credit
money that farmers can borrow
governance
how a program is run and managed
monitoring
checking how something is working
indicator
a sign that shows how well something is doing
capacity building
teaching people new skills
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