Summary
This helps farmers get a good price even if the market price goes down. 📉
The money will be sent straight to the farmers’ bank accounts. 🏦
Three states – Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana – will get this help. 🗺️
Key Points
4 points1
₹5,547.99 crore will be used to buy beans and oil seeds.
2
About 7.06 lakh (706,000) tonnes of crops will be bought.
3
Uttar Pradesh will get the biggest share of the money.
4
The program protects farmers when prices fall.
New Words to Learn
10 wordsprocurement
buying crops from farmers
pulses
beans like lentils and peas
oilseeds
seeds that give oil, like soybeans and sunflower
rupee
India’s money
transparent
clear and open so everyone can see
remunerative
giving good earnings
self-reliance
being able to make what we need ourselves
bank account
a place where money is kept safely
market price
the price people usually pay for something
Kharif
the main season when certain crops are grown
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