evidence: - Showing the government’s farmer-centric focus, the budget set aside for agriculture increased 5 times from ₹1.37 lakh crore during 2007-14 to ₹7.27 lakh crore during 2014-25. [...] - Agricultural mechanization - During the period from 2014-15 to December, 2023 an amount of Rs 6405.55 crore has been allocated for agricultural mechanization. From within the funds of Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM), so far an amount of Rs 141.41 crores have been released towards Kisan drone promotion, which includes purchase of 317 Drones for their demonstration in 79070 hectares of land and supply of 527 drones to the farmers on subsidy. [...] Every year, under PM-KISAN Samman Yojana, direct financial assistance is provided to 11.8 crore farmers, including marginal and small farmers.[3] Under the scheme, farmers have received over Rs 2.80 lakh thousand crore so far. [4]