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#News(AgriTech) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
The Narendra Modi Government had talked about doubling farmers’ income by 2022. The 2017-18 Economic Survey, tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday (28 January), says the Centre will have make a clear distinction between two forms of agriculture in India.
“There is an agriculture – the well-irrigated, input-added, and price-and-procurement-supported cereals grown in Northern India – where the challenge is for policy to change the form of the very generous support from prices and subsidies to less damaging support in the form of direct benefit transfers,” the survey pointed out.
“Then there is another agriculture (broadly, non-cereals in central, western and southern India) where the problems are very different: inadequate irrigation, continued rain dependence, ineffective procurement, and insufficient investments in research and technology (non-cereals such as pulses, soybeans, and cotton), high market barriers and weak post-harvest infrastructure (fruits and vegetables), and challenging non-economic policy (livestock). It is easy to say what needs to be done. How this will happen given that agriculture is a state subject is an open political economy question,” the survey said.
The report is significant since 52 per cent of area under agriculture in the country is still rain-fed and unirrigated
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