India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
The Government has undertaken a mid-term evaluation of Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) scheme. Agro Economic Research Centre (AERC), Pune evaluated the scheme's progress and performance, gather beneficiary feedback, and suggest improvements in December 2023. The evaluation highlighted positive impact of the scheme in terms of increase in farmers' income, increase in agriculture storage capacity, growth of post-harvest and value addition infrastructure for agriculture produce, generation of employment and encouraging agriculture entrepreneurship. The detail of the outcomes of the study are as below:
i. 31% of the AIF units availed government subsidies also....