Features of the Krishi Udan Yojana
- Strengthening the hub-and-spoke concept and the freight grid to support the growth of cargo-related infrastructure at airports and outside of airports.
- Convergence of technologies for the creation of the E-KUSHAL (Krishi UDAN for Sustainable Holistic Agri-Logistics) platform to make it easier for all stakeholders to share information. Additionally, it is suggested to integrate E-KUSHAL with the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM). E-KUSHAL is a platform that will be created to facilitate the distribution of information to all stakeholders.
- The plan asks for assistance and encourages states to lower their sales taxes on ATF for freighters and P2C aircraft, as extended in UDAN flights, to 1 percent.
- The Krishi UDAN 2.0 scheme exempts Indian freighters and P2C from paying any landing, parking, TNLC, or RNFC fees at specific airports. Such facilitation and incentives boost transportation.
- Resources are pooled by creating a convergence mechanism, which involves working with other governmental agencies and regulatory authorities to offer incentives and concessions to various stakeholders to improve the air transportation of agricultural products.
Krishi Udan Yojana
In order to aid farmers in transporting their products and boost value realization through air transportation, Krishi UDAN was introduced in August 2020 on both international and domestic routes. This scheme was launched along the lines of the Udan Scheme. Udan was an air regional connectivity program and it gives a unique chance to the common person to fly at a reasonable price. After the success of Udan, Krishi Udan Yojana was launched to help farmers and promote the transportation of agricultural produce by air.