India's govt. steps up funding of farm sector to lift stuttering economy

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government announced billions of dollars of state funding to help the sprawling farm sector in its 2020/21 federal budget on Saturday, aiming to get broader economic growth back up from its lowest in a decade.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting the budget for the financial year beginning April 1 to parliament, said there was a need to liberalise farm markets and the government was committed to doubling farmers' income by 2020. Agriculture accounts for..