The agriculture sector, as a whole, needs support measures for long-term and sustained improvements and to ensure the viability of farming as an occupation.
According to the report, which was tabled ahead of Union Budget 2023 by Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Tuesday, the combined spending of the centre and state governments in the education sector dipped from Rs. 5.8 lakh crore in the financial year 2019-20 to 5.76 lakh crore in 2020-21.