During the Cabinet briefing, union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the two schemes will promote agricultural mechanisation including crop residue management and accelerator fund for agri startups.
The government also said that the State and Union Territory Food Safety Departments have been put on alert and urged to take action against violators under the provisions of the FSS Act, 2006.
The government has permitted exports of 30,000 tonne of non-basmati white rice to Tanzania and 80,000 tonne of broken rice to Djibouti and Guinea Bissau.
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