Under Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative, Agriculture Infrastructure Fund Scheme (AIF) was launched in July 2020, which facilitates financing of Rs.1,00,000 crore that is being sanctioned by various lending institutions for setting up of agriculture infrastructure Projects at farm-gate & aggregation points all over the country.

An amount of Rs 5990 crores has been tentatively allocated to the State of Tamil Nadu under AIF, which will be disbursed in the form of loan to eligible beneficiaries by lending institutions.

The Projects sanctioned under the scheme are annexed as Annexure.

 

Annexure

 (Amount in Rs. Crore)

S.No.	Particulars	No.	Amount
1	Primary processing Centre	335	170
2	Warehouse	300	105
3	Custom Hiring Centre	246	78
4	Logistics Facility	287	32
5	Sorting & Grading Unit	44	21
6	Cold Stores and Cold Chain	20	16
7	Infrastructure for smart and precision agriculture	134	16
8	Bio stimulant production units	8	10
9	PHM Activities	43	10
10	Silos	5	8
11	Organic inputs production	17	7
12	Supply chain infrastructure for clusters of crops	15	3
13	Ripening Chambers	2	2
14	Packaging units	6	2
15	Logistics Facilities	12	1
16	Others	513	69
	Total	1987	549

 

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

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(Release ID: 1906897)