Question

describe technological and agricultural reforms in agricultural sector​

Answer 1

The Government is aware of the roadmap outlined by NITI Aayog for reforms in agriculture sector and doubling farmers income by 2022. The Roadmap presents a quantitative framework for doubling farmers’ income which has identified seven sources of growth. These are:

(i) increase in productivity of crops.

(ii) increase in production of livestock.

(iii) improvement in efficiency of input use (cost saving).

(iv) increase in crop intensity.

(v) diversification towards high value crops.