Guwahati: Airport Authority of India (AAI) offers full waiver of Landing, Parking, Terminal Navigational Landing Charges (TNLC), and Route Navigation Facility Charges (RNFC) for Indian freighters and P2C (Passenger-to-Cargo) Aircraft in order to facilitate and encourage the movement of agricultural products by air transportation.

The programme primarily involves 28 airports in different regions/areas in addition to 25 airports principally focused on the North Eastern, Hilly, and Tribal region. Five additional airports have been added after Krishi Udan 2.0 was evaluated, bringing the total to 58 airports.

On October 27, 2021, the Government of India introduced the Krishi Udan Scheme 2.0 to improve the current procedures for transporting perishable food items from mountainous areas, Northeastern States, and tribal areas.

As part of the Krishi Udan Scheme, eight Ministries/Departments—the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Department of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy, the Department of Fisheries, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, the Department of Commerce, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and the Ministry of Development of the North-Eastern Region—will combine their efforts to strengthen the logistics for transporting agricultural products. Under the Krishi Udan Scheme, no precise budgetary allocation exists.

The primary goal of the Krishi Udan Scheme 2.0 is to enhance the proportion of air transportation in the mix of modes used to move agricultural goods, which also includes items from horticulture, fisheries, livestock, and processed goods.

The air transportation of "King Chilies, Burmese Grapes & Assamese Lemon" from Guwahati, "Jackfruit" from Tripura, and "Litchi" from Darbhanga are a few instances of successful operations.

The programme helps farmers transport their produce in order to increase the value of their output.

53 airports were initially included in the experimental study, which ran for six months. Thereafter, during the evaluation, 05 more Airports were included so total covered are 58 Airports.

These airports are Adampur, Agartala, Agatti, Agra, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bareli, Bhuj, Bhuntar, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaggal, Goa, Gorakhpur, Hindon, Imphal, Indore, Jaisalmer, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kanpur, Kolkata, Leh, Lengpui, Lilabari, Nashik, Pakyong, Pantnagar, Pathankot, Patna, Pithoragarh, Port-Blair, Prayagraj, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Rupsi, Shillong, Shimla, Silchar, Srinagar, Tezpur, Tezu, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam, Belagavi, Bhopal, Darbhanga, Jabalpur and Jharsuguda.

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