Doubling farm incomes: Why change is still slow
6 years, 2 months ago

Doubling farm incomes: Why change is still slow

Deccan Chronicle  

Agriculture’s contribution to economic value addition is shrinking worldwide. But that is cold comfort for the families of 118 million small and marginal farmers in India, comprising 85 per cent of the 139 million land holdings. These subsidies — purchase above market rates; fertilisers supplied at below market rates; electricity supplied at below cost; canal water supplied at below cost, even the fixed cost — together account for one per cent of GDP or around Rs 1.7 trillion. Only around one-third of agricultural produce is currently procured by state entities, which is then fed into the public distribution system with a subsidy of more than 90 per cent on cost or released into the market to stabilise food prices. We are missing out on 0.2 per cent of GDP growth and higher incomes for 200 million poor farmers.

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We must not let Indian agriculture turn into an unending tragi-comedy
10 months, 1 week ago

We must not let Indian agriculture turn into an unending tragi-comedy

Live Mint  

Third, agricultural spends have a targeting problem. Professor Ashok Gulati estimates that the MSP system’s total coverage is limited to only 5.6% of Indian farmers and just 2.2% of our agricultural produce by value. Juxtapose this with the fact that agriculture today accounts for a much lower portion of rural household incomes than is usually imagined. As per the National …

Congress’ Sidhu calls doubling farmers’ MSP or income ‘biggest lie in the world’
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Congress’ Sidhu calls doubling farmers’ MSP or income ‘biggest lie in the world’

Live Mint  

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday addressed a press conference on ongoing farmers' protest. Sidhu said "doubling farmers' MSP or income" is the "biggest lie in the world". Sidhu said, “.Farmer's MSP and income will be doubled, is there a bigger lie than this in the world?.” Sidhu said that the government increases ₹40 and takes back ₹400. Supporting …

We did not manage to double the income of Indian farmers
2 years ago

We did not manage to double the income of Indian farmers

Live Mint  

On 28 February 2016, at a farmer rally in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the government’s intention of doubling the income of farmers by 2022, a year marking 75 years of India’s independence. Nonetheless, based on the SAS, the income of farmer households from crop cultivation declined 1.5% per annum between 2012-13 and 2018-19, similar to what …

Poor Farmers, Small Landholdings & Low Crop Yield Crisis: Why India Desperately Needs Farm Reforms
4 years ago

Poor Farmers, Small Landholdings & Low Crop Yield Crisis: Why India Desperately Needs Farm Reforms

News 18  

When it comes to agriculture, India is a land of contradictions. India is one of the top producers of several crops in the world but when it comes to productivity parameters, i.e., crop produced per unit of land, we are yet laggards. However, when it comes to the agricultural yield, or amount of crop produced per unit of land, we …

Review: Why small farms need a reordering of our society
4 years, 2 months ago

Review: Why small farms need a reordering of our society

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “A Small Farm Future: Making …

The new farm laws endanger the livelihoods of small-scale farmers
4 years, 3 months ago

The new farm laws endanger the livelihoods of small-scale farmers

The Hindu  

A large number of farmers are protesting against three agricultural market reform Bills passed by Parliament recently. If private trade, which already has a 95 per cent market share, has not ensured better realisation of prices for farmers, how does a mere 5 per cent increase ensure that? The average price realised by marginal farmers selling to these local private …

BJP’s one market for farmers is a myth | Opinion
4 years, 3 months ago

BJP’s one market for farmers is a myth | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

Should India’s farmers have the economic freedom to market their produce to whoever and wherever they want at an agreed price? The nearest Agriculture Produce Market Committee market yard for Gawande is 25 km away where licenced traders will bid for his produce, starting with the Minimum Support Price declared by the government. The Bharatiya Janata Party government has passed …

Govt confident of doubling farmers income by 2022
4 years, 10 months ago

Govt confident of doubling farmers income by 2022

India TV News  

Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Chaudhary on Tuesday expressed confidence of achieving the target of doubling farmers income by 2022. The average monthly income of farmers' income stood at Rs 8,167 during 2016-17, while at Rs 6,426 in 2013-14, as per the National Sample Survey Office report, he said. ".doubling farmers' income is the priority of the government..I am …

To achieve 10% GDP, India needs to boost investment in agriculture sector: Niti Aayog chief Amitabh Kant
5 years, 9 months ago

To achieve 10% GDP, India needs to boost investment in agriculture sector: Niti Aayog chief Amitabh Kant

ABP News  

Amitabh Kant also said there is a need to boost investment in the agriculture sector Kant also stressed on scrapping Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee agriculture is a state subject and the central government has a limited role in it, Kant said New Delhi: India cannot achieve 9-10 per cent GDP growth without the revolution in the farm sector, Niti Aayog …

Opinion | Indian agriculture’s problem of scale
6 years, 3 months ago

Opinion | Indian agriculture’s problem of scale

Live Mint  

The past few days have neatly summed up the scale and nature of the challenges facing India’s agriculture sector. First, the provisional agriculture census 2015-16 showed that landholdings have continued their decades-long trend of fragmentation, leading to a further rise in the proportion of small and marginal farmers. In his famous 1962 The Economic Weekly article, “An aspect of Indian …

Kisan Kranti Yatra: Low income major cause of agrarian distress, but is higher MSP solution to farmers' woes?
6 years, 3 months ago

Kisan Kranti Yatra: Low income major cause of agrarian distress, but is higher MSP solution to farmers' woes?

Firstpost  

The current farmers’ agitation demanding a higher minimum support price, among others, is puzzling for many since it had been raised by 15 percent for 13 kharif crops, on an average, in July this year – the highest since 2013. Ironical as it may seem, a 2017 Niti Aayog report says that farmers’ income has not kept pace with the …

Reduction in number of farmers will help raise farm incomes: Ramesh Chand
6 years, 3 months ago

Reduction in number of farmers will help raise farm incomes: Ramesh Chand

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Growth in farm incomes will be aided by a reduction in the number of farmers and value addition of produce, apart from rising growth in agriculture gross domestic product, according to farm sector expert and NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand. Edited excerpts from an interview: India’s agriculture GDP growth rate has averaged 2.5% in the past four years. …

Govt panel recommends radical overhaul of farming ecosystem
6 years, 3 months ago

Govt panel recommends radical overhaul of farming ecosystem

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government should undertake a radical overhaul of the agriculture ecosystem by moving from a supply-push production system to a demand-led one, according to a committee set up by the centre to recommend strategies to double farmer incomes by 2022. The agriculture ministry should also set up an “empowered committee” to operationalize and monitor progress of doubling of …

For NDA's move to raise MSPs of monsoon crops to matter, agriculture needs structural changes, says economic analyst
6 years, 3 months ago

For NDA's move to raise MSPs of monsoon crops to matter, agriculture needs structural changes, says economic analyst

Firstpost  

By Shreehari Paliath Mumbai: Under pressure from farmers’ groups across the country due to falling prices and a glut of produce, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government announced a hike in the minimum support prices of kharif season crops in July 2018. pic.twitter.com/7HayzD6ccD — BJP July 4, 2018 However, the new MSPs do not meet the recommendations made …

Farmers grapple with rising costs, falling incomes
6 years, 5 months ago

Farmers grapple with rising costs, falling incomes

Live Mint  

Falling farm incomes in rural Maharashtra might be an important factor fuelling the current spate of protests by the Marathas, who are demanding reservation in educational institutions and government jobs. The net returns from farming, or wholesale prices minus costs of production, declined for most of the major crops in the state between 2006-07 and 2014-15, reveals analysis of data …

India earns Rs 18,000 cr per year from export of basmati rice, says agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh
6 years, 5 months ago

India earns Rs 18,000 cr per year from export of basmati rice, says agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh

Firstpost  

India has earned more than Rs 18,000 crore foreign exchange per year from the export of basmati rice, especially from the variety 1121 developed by the country’s top agri-institute ICAR, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Monday New Delhi: India has earned more than Rs 18,000 crore foreign exchange per year from the export of basmati rice, especially from …

MSP hike, farm loan waivers to bolster rural economy but it’s not enough
6 years, 6 months ago

MSP hike, farm loan waivers to bolster rural economy but it’s not enough

Live Mint  

Mumbai: Substantial increases in minimum support prices on kharif crops and farm loan waiver in Karnataka are expected to reverse the fortunes of the farm sector and bolster continuing rural upliftment focus of the government ahead of the upcoming general elections in 2019. According to their estimates, higher MSPs will raise autumn kharif harvest farm income by 10% in contrast …

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