🌾 India Expands PM-SAMPADA Scheme to Boost Agro-Processing Industries

🧭 Thematic Focus:

Agriculture | Economy | Food Processing and Rural Development

🌟 Introductory Glimpse:

In a major push to strengthen rural economies and food processing capacity, the government has expanded the PM-SAMPADA Scheme (Pradhan Mantri Sampada Yojana) to cover more agro-processing clusters, cold storage chains, and export promotion hubs, supporting India’s journey toward becoming a global agro-export powerhouse.

🛤️ Key Highlights:

• Expansion of PM-SAMPADA Scheme to include new agro-processing clusters.
• Focus areas: food parks, cold chain infrastructure, mega food hubs, and export promotion.
• Offers incentives for startups, farmer-producer organizations (FPOs), and cooperatives.
• Aims to reduce post-harvest losses, enhance farmer incomes, and create rural jobs.
• Supports India’s goal of value-added agricultural exports and sustainable agribusiness.

📜 GS Paper Mapping:

• GS Paper 3: Agriculture | Economy | Infrastructure Development | Food Processing Industry

🪄 A Thought Spark — by IAS Monk:

“When the hands that sow also shape the harvest, a nation’s dreams ripen in golden fields.”