Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday, June 11, 2026, credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade-plus tenure with a wholesale transformation of Indian agriculture, citing flagship welfare schemes and digital market reforms as evidence of a 'seed to market' revolution for the country's farming households.

Context

Posting under the hashtag #12YearsOfKisanSamriddhi (12 years of farmer prosperity), CM Patel argued that the Modi government's policy record since 2014 has repositioned annadata (the provider of food) at the centre of India's economic progress. He wrote that schemes such as PM-KISAN have delivered direct cash support into farmers' bank accounts as a mark of respect and empowerment. The post is part of a coordinated BJP communication drive marking 12 years of the party in power at the Centre.

Policy Backdrop

The schemes cited by CM Patel span the full tenure he references. PM-KISAN, launched in February 2019, provides ₹6,000 per year in three equal instalments directly to landholding farmer families through the Direct Benefit Transfer mechanism, bypassing intermediaries. The e-NAM (Electronic National Agriculture Market) platform, introduced in April 2016, links mandis across states to enable online price discovery and trading, with CM Patel specifically crediting it with ending the role of middlemen — bichauli — in the supply chain.

Two further initiatives round out his account. The Soil Health Card scheme, rolled out from 2015, issues nutrient-status reports to farmers to promote balanced fertiliser use and improve yields. PM-KUSUM (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan), approved in 2019, promotes solar pumps and decentralised renewable energy infrastructure on farms, reducing dependence on grid power and cutting input costs.

Stakeholders and Impact

The primary beneficiaries of the programmes highlighted are small and marginal farming households, who account for the bulk of India's agricultural workforce. Direct bank transfers under PM-KISAN reduce reliance on informal credit at harvest time, while e-NAM's digital mandi network is intended to give sellers access to a wider pool of buyers beyond local commission agents. CM Patel's framing — that today's Indian farmer is 'modern, self-reliant and globally competitive' — reflects the government's narrative of agriculture as a driver of the Viksit Bharat (Developed India) vision, though independent assessments of on-ground impact vary.

State governments, including Gujarat, have run parallel irrigation and procurement programmes that interact with these central schemes. Constitutional division of powers keeps agriculture a state subject, meaning the effectiveness of central initiatives depends significantly on state-level implementation and integration with existing APMC frameworks.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to the Union Agriculture Ministry's forthcoming progress reports on PM-KUSUM solar pump installations and the pace of e-NAM integration with state APMC reforms — metrics that will test whether the policy narrative CM Patel articulates translates into measurable gains for farming households across India's diverse agrarian regions.