This brief discusses that the budget for the rural-agrarian sector is heavily skewed towards welfare measures and raises questions whether this is the most effective use of these funds. Despite union government’s focus on rural areas through various schemes to build toilets, and houses, and provide drinking water, rural roads, electricity supply, and free rations, rural incomes are not improving …
After a period of robust crop prices, farm incomes are likely to take a hit in 2023 following a glut in perishable prices and damage wreaked by unseasonal rains. In March, ready-to-harvest winter crops like wheat, chick peas and mustard were damaged by hailstorms and unseasonal rains in several states. But higher prices for rice and wheat are a result …
