Farmers using cash scheme well: Study (Hindustan Times)

Hindustan Times published an article about an Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and IFPRI study, which is part of a larger project, that found beneficiaries of PM-KISAN were diverse and there was no “statistical evidence” of any bias in selection of farmers on the basis of caste, community, or fealty. The impact of PM-KISAN, the Modi government’s income transfer scheme for farmers, has found that poor cultivators don’t squander the free money they receive, but invest it “efficiently” in modern farm technologies, apart from education and health. How farmers utilized the money also depended on the very timing of cash release.