Union Budget 2020-21: Big plans for storage facilities


Date & Time: 2020-03-11 16:45:15

Promise of cold storage capacity at villages, warehousing at blocks, refrigerated rail coaches to reduce losses Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the setting up of storage facilities at villages as part of the Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages (CBFL) under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). The proposed facilities will be run by women self-help groups (SHG) and are expected to reduce logistics cost of farmers.