Agri experts are meeting FinMin ministry officials on Monday to give their inputs on the Budget.
There are about 85 million milch cows -- those that produce milk -- in the country.
Rediff.com takes a look at the progress of schemes initiated by the government.
Critics argue that much more could have been done and that the government was slow to react to many events.
Swachch Bharat and Jan Dhan grabbed more eyeballs across clusters, regardless of party in power across states.
Eight out of about 40 schemes are with the nomenclature starting Pradhan Mantri, but except Gramin Sadak and Rozgar Yojana, most others go barely acknowledged.
While the government has claimed significant increase in funds for farm credit, PMKSY and PKVY, facts show a different story.
In the sixth edition of the radio programme, Modi took the opportunity to reach out to farmers and defend the land bill.
DroughtThe Centre is expected to discuss issues related to drought management and also review the progress of major central schemes like soil health cards, irrigation programmes
More funds are expected to be allocated for the new crop insurance scheme, PMSKY and RKVY.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday batted for expansion of organic farming across the country.
Critics said a 10-plus per cent annual increase in incomes is a tall order, given that between 2002-03 and 2012-13, farm incomes grew yearly by 3.6 per cent.
In her first address to the joint sitting of Parliament as the Budget session began, she said 'Amrit Kaal', described by the government as the 25-year period culminating in the centenary of India's independence, is the time to build an India which is 'aatmanirbhar' (self reliant) and also fulfils its humanitarian obligations.
Government's objective is to bring down the cost of cultivation through efficient use of fertilisers and agro chemicals, and increase in realisation. It is, thus, planning to connect 200 agricultural mandis with electronic National Agricultural Mandis this year and 225 next year, to enable farmers to sell their produce hassle-free online.
Satellite analysis can assess vegetation cover down to field level.
Farmers have been availing crop loans upto Rs 300,000 at 7%.
Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
Without making any direct reference to the three new farm reform laws or to the three-month-old agitation by farmers, Modi said there is a need for expanding options for the country's farming community to sell agri produce.
'Whatever I did, I did for the farmers and whatever I am doing, I am doing for the country'
"Those who ruled for decades since Independence believed Dispur was too distant from Delhi. 'Dilli ab door nahi aapke darwaaze par hai' (Delhi is not far now, it stands at your doorstep," he told a massive gathering.
Criticising the Congress, he said the parties following the politics of family and dynasty may continue like that, but the BJP government was committed to taking the country's defence and self-respect to their pinnacle.
We had prepared a contingency plan for 580 districts, the minister said.
Modi also appealed to farmers not to burn crop residues so as to curb pollution.
Addressing the nation for the fourth time since he took office in 2014, the prime minister called upon the citizens to perform their duties towards the nation and co-operate to work towards a common goal of peace, harmony and development in the country.
A provision of Rs 15,000 crore has been made in the budgetary estimate of 2016-17 towards interest subvention.
The meeting with Xi is being held amid the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.
Major focus will be on adequately funding existing schemes to ensure their timely completion before the next General Elections.
The government's largesse was widely expected after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost power in the recent assembly polls in three Hindi heartland states, where rural distress was cited to be one of the reasons for the defeat of the saffron party.
With the government claiming that the economy has been growing robustly and the Opposition refuting these claims, the common man is none the wiser, says Rajeev Sharma.
He said farmers need to get good remunerative price for their produce.
According to BJP strategists, PMJAY and the PM Ujjwala Yojana will form the nucleus of the Modi government's re-election campaign.
Modi accuses Congress of spreading 'lies, confusion and pessimism'
UP is an important state to roll out the government's agrarian reforms and job growth policies.
Without naming the UPA government, he attacked it over alleged corruption and flagged his government's 'honest' credentials.
Hordes of cows rampage through the fields, eating everything in sight. This is after the UP government banned slaughter of cattle. As a result, farmers whose cows become old and are a liability simply sets them loose.
Rejecting criticism of jobless growth, he said if state after state is creating good number of jobs, how can the Centre be creating joblessness?
The government is doing things in agriculture that count for little, says Shreekant Sambrani.
'Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the decisions taken by my government in the national interest,' President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to both Houses of Parliament.
He challenged the Congress to select someone 'capable' as its president, who did not belong to 'that one family'.
