Write a note on reformation in agriculture in India.
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Agriculture Reforms
04 Apr 2020 12 min read
Tags: GS Paper - 3Direct & Indirect Farm SubsidiesAgricultural MarketingAgricultural PricingGrowth & Development
This article is based on “Reforming Indian Agriculture” which was published in Economic and Political Weekly on 14/03/2020. It talks about challenges and solutions pertaining to India’s Agriculture sector.
India’s agriculture policies have had multiple mandates, including a production imperative (national food security), a consumer imperative (keeping food prices low for a large low-income population), and a farmer welfare imperative (raising farmer’s income).
Tensions between these mandates have resulted in costly, contradictory policies whose costs have been increasingly borne by farmers, the government purse, and the natural environment.
Realising the significance of Agriculture in India’s socio-economic order, the government has set an agenda of doubling farmer incomes by raising productivity and cutting down costs, and going for diversification towards high value agriculture.