🔆 Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) ✅ AIF is a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. ✅ AIF aims to mobilize a medium-long term debt financing facility for investment in viable projects related to post-harvest management infrastructure and community farming assets through incentives and financial support. ✅ Funds: AIF aims to provide Rs 1,00,000 crore for funding agriculture infrastructure projects at farm-gate & aggregation points like PACS, FPOs, SHGs, their federations, JLGs, Cooperatives, and their federations, Agriculture entrepreneurs, start-ups etc. ✅ Impetus for the development of farm gate & aggregation point, affordable and financially viable post-harvest management infrastructure. 📍 Components of Agriculture Infrastructure Fund Scheme ✅ Interest Subvention Cost ✅ Credit Guarantee Cost ✅ Administration Cost of PMU 📍 Eligible Projects ✅ Post Harvest Management Projects: - Supply chain services including e-marketing platforms, warehouse & silos, cold storages & cold chain, packaging units, assaying units, logistic facilities, ripening chambers, farm residue/waste management infrastructures, and primary processing activities. ✅ Community Farming Assets: - Organic inputs production, compressed biogas, bio-stimulant production units, infrastructure for smart & precision agriculture, purchase of drones, sensors, blockchain & AI in agriculture, remote sensing & IoT, nursery, tissue culture, seed processing, custom hiring centre, farm/harvest automation, solar pumping system (PM-KUSUM- A, B & C), spirulina production, sericulture processing units, honey processing, supply chain infrastructure for clusters of crops etc.