While financial inclusion has benefitted the rural population immensely, farmers have returned the gesture with a glittering performance that stood even during the pandemic-led gloom, recording a positive growth rate in all the quarters of FY21, a year that witnessed a 7.3% contraction of the GDP.
Besides the health insurance, the government has come to the aid of small farmers, providing income assistance to those who own land up to 2 hectare, of Rs 6,000 every year that has been hiked to Rs 10,000 now.
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