atmanirbhar bharat;-making of new india through biodiversity and agriculture proseperity
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Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has announced the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ (Self-reliant India Movement) on May 12, 2020 with a special economic & comprehensive package of Rs 20 lakh crores which was aimed towards achieving the mission. The Mission focuses on the importance of promoting local products. The mission is also expected to complement “Make in India” initiative which intends to encourage manufacturing in India including agriculture sector which have a great potential. Agriculture plays a very crucial role in Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
Agriculture continues to be the source of livelihood for majority of the population. In a nutshell, agricultural has a vast impact on every citizen of the country, either directly or indirectly.
With a motive to transform the Agriculture into a Sustainable Enterprise, Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare has recently taken a host of historical pro-agriculture landmark initiatives towards the development of Aatmanirbhar Krishi in India by implementing 03 landmark reforms on 5th of June 2020, for the benefit of farming community, details of which are given below:
A. The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020
Allowing liberal trade, increased competition amongst buyers, remove barriers in interstate trade and offering more options to sell and buy. All these activities will culminate into the enhancement of farmers’ income.
B. The Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020
Facilitates Visibility and Assurance of price to farmers at the time of sowing, cropping decisions based on forward contracts, minimize market risks and solve issues of erratic food pricing and encourage contract farming.
C. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020
Boosting private investments in Agri supply chains, food processing industries, export infrastructure.
These landmark ordinances in its pursuit to agriculture market reforms, provide farmers with greater freedom and regarded as another giant leap towards liberalization and free market regime. These reforms call for resonance from the states and other stakeholders in terms of gearing up to deliver the purpose of these reforms right up to the farm gate level. The Ordinance will further motivate APMCs to be more effective and efficient in providing cost effective services to farmers for efficient marketing of their produce towards improving their income
As another move towards Atmanirbharta in Krishi the flagship scheme of Government of India i.e National Agriculture Market (e-NAM), is an innovative initiative in agricultural marketing which enhance farmers accessibility digitally to multiple number of markets & buyers and bring transparency in price discovery mechanism and price realization based on quality of produce.
With the aim to reach the last mile farmer & transform the way they sell their agri. produce, e-NAM had expanded to 1000 mandis of 18 States & 03 UTs. Under the new FPO trade Module, FPOs are doing trade from their collection centers through e-NAM platform. This online market aims at reducing transaction costs, bridge information asymmetries, and help in expanding market access for farmers.
Aiming towards “One Nation One Market” for agricultural commodities in India, e-NAM has made revolutionary change to the traditional agri-business in the country emerged as a ready solution to farmers & other stakeholders to conduct their business. With its value-added services, e-NAM has emerged as much more advanced and robust platform..