Projects under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
15 March 2023, New Delhi: 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 |
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