Andhra Pradesh credits ₹3,125 crore to 46.85 lakh farmer families under Annadata Sukhibhava
The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday released ₹3,125.47 crore as the second instalment of financial assistance under the Annadata Sukhibhava-PM Kisan scheme, Agriculture Minister K. Atchannaidu said. The funds are meant for 46,85,838 farmer families across the State.
Of the total amount, the State government's share is ₹2,342.92 crore, while the Centre's contribution is ₹782.55 crore, the Minister said in a statement.
The Annadata Sukhibhava scheme is a State-level income support programme that runs alongside the Centre's PM-Kisan scheme. Under PM-Kisan, launched in 2019, eligible landholding farmer families receive ₹6,000 a year from the Union government in three equal instalments of ₹2,000 each. Andhra Pradesh tops this up from its own funds so that the combined annual assistance reaches ₹20,000 per family.
Mr. Atchannaidu said the government was committed to providing that ₹20,000 a year to every eligible farmer family — ₹14,000 from the State government and ₹6,000 from the Centre under PM-Kisan.
The State's share is disbursed in three instalments: ₹7,000 during the kharif season, ₹7,000 during the rabi season and ₹6,000 during the summer. The assistance is transferred directly to the bank accounts of eligible farmers.
The Minister set out the cumulative figures for the scheme so far. The government had disbursed ₹8,985.41 crore in the 2025-26 financial year and ₹3,125.47 crore as the first instalment of the 2026-27 financial year, he said. With the release of the second instalment, and counting the PM-Kisan funds disbursed during 2024-25, the total financial assistance extended to farmers would reach ₹17,789.80 crore.
Income support schemes of this kind are intended to help farmers meet input costs such as seed, fertiliser, pesticide and hired labour, and to cushion them against price and weather shocks. In Andhra Pradesh, agriculture remains a major source of employment, and paddy, cotton, chilli and pulses are among the principal crops.
The Minister said the government was committed to making agriculture a remunerative occupation for farmers. He did not give a specific date on which the money would be credited, but releases under the scheme have generally been followed by direct transfers to beneficiaries' accounts.
Farmer families who believe they are eligible but have not received the assistance can approach their local agriculture office or the village-level revenue and agriculture functionaries. Officials have in the past cited land record verification and Aadhaar seeding of bank accounts as the main reasons for payments being held up, and beneficiaries are advised to keep these details updated.
The scheme's cost is shared by the State and the Centre, and its annual outgo depends on the number of verified beneficiaries in each season. Friday's release covers the rabi-linked instalment of the current cycle, according to the government's statement.
