Uttar Pradesh: Farmer and rural schemes

Uttar Pradesh's schemes for farmers and villages cover crop purchase and cane payments, free power for tube wells, crop insurance, loans, irrigation, rural housing, jobs, drinking water and panchayat facilities. The figures below come from the state's Budget 2026-27 highlights, with achievements for 2025-26 where the budget gives them.

Payments to Farmers

• Sugarcane: the state reports a record cane price payment of over ₹3,04,321 crore, ₹90,802 crore more than the combined ₹2,13,519 crore paid in the previous 22 years.
• Cane price: raised by 30 per quintal for the 2025-26 crushing season, giving farmers about ₹3,000 crore extra.
• Wheat (Rabi Marketing Year 2025-26): 10.27 lakh metric tonnes bought for ₹2,512 crore.
• Paddy (Kharif Marketing Year 2025-26): 42.96 lakh metric tonnes bought for ₹9,710 crore.
• Millet (Kharif Marketing Year 2025-26): 2.14 lakh metric tonnes from 54,253 farmers, ₹595 crore paid.
• Free electricity for irrigation through tube wells since 1 April 2023.

Insurance, Income Support and Credit

• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: about 62 lakh farmers got ₹5,110 crore in compensation from 2017-18 to 2024-25; in the 2025-26 Kharif season, ₹215 crore went to 2.69 lakh insured farmers (up to December 2025).
• Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana: about ₹94,668 crore sent by DBT to 3.12 crore farmers in 2025-26 (up to December 2025).
• Kisan Credit Card: limits of more than ₹1 lakh crore approved for 50.82 lakh farmers till December 2025.
• Short-term crop loans (2025-26): ₹10,257 crore to 15.01 lakh farmers up to 19 December 2025.
• Long-term loans (2025-26): ₹205 crore to 6,870 farmers up to 30 November 2025, against a ₹600 crore target.
• New schemes include a Revolving Fund for Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and a Mukhyamantri Risk Management and Livestock Insurance Scheme.

Irrigation and Flood Control

• Irrigation and flood control: ₹18,290 crore.
• Major projects: Madhya Ganga Stage 2, Kanhar Irrigation Project, Ken Betwa Link Project and Bhaurat Dam Project, which will create or restore 4.49 lakh hectares of irrigation capacity.
• State tube wells (2025-26): 2,100 new and 569 failed ones rebuilt in dark zones, restoring about 1.62 lakh hectares and benefiting about 1.43 lakh farming families.
• Flood control (2025-26): 285 projects completed, benefiting 49.90 lakh people; drains cleaned over 11,065 kilometres.
• Mukhya Mantri Laghu Sinchai Yojana: ₹1,375 crore.

Rural Housing, Jobs and Roads

• Rural development: about ₹25,500 crore.
• MGNREGA: ₹5,544 crore; Rashtriya Gramin Ajeevika Mission: ₹4,580 crore. Both are to run under the Viksit Bharat Gramin Rozgar Yojana and the Ajeevika Mission Guarantee Yojana.
• Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin: ₹6,102 crore.
• Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana Gramin: 3 lakh 67 thousand houses completed from 2018-19 to 2025-26, against a target of 04 lakh 61 thousand.
• Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana: ₹822 crore.
• Twarit Arthik Vikas Yojana: ₹2,400 crore for rural infrastructure.

Drinking Water and Sanitation

• Namami Gange and Gramin Jalapurti: about ₹22,676 crore; Jal Jeevan Mission (all components): about ₹22,452 crore in 2026-27.
• Tap connections: 2.43 crore houses connected against a target of all 2.67 crore rural families.
• Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) Phase II: ₹2,823 crore.

Panchayati Raj

• Panchayati Raj schemes: about ₹32,090 crore, 67 percent higher than 2025-26.
• Digital Libraries at Gram Panchayat and Ward level: ₹454 crore.
• Gramin Stadiums and Open Gyms: ₹130 crore.
• 1,000 Multi-purpose Panchayat Bhawans: about ₹57 crore.
• Panchayat Utsav Bhawan / Barat Ghar in each assembly constituency: ₹100 crore.

Family ID

• Under 'Ek Parivar, Ek Pehchan', Family IDs have been made for 04 crore families and 15.62 crore people; 98 schemes of 32 departments are linked to the database.