Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 21st instalment of the PM-KISAN income support scheme — amounting to Rs 18,000 crore for over nine crore farmers — during his visit to Coimbatore on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the South India Organic Farming Conference being organised by the Tamil Nadu Organic Farmers’ Federation at the CODISSIA campus.

PM Modi is scheduled to arrive at the Coimbatore International Airport from Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh. He will be received by Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi and senior government officials. Around 1.30 p.m., he will travel by road to the CODISSIA Trade Complex, where an elaborate reception has been arranged by the South India Organic Farmers’ Federation.

At the event, the Prime Minister will formally inaugur

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