The Indian Express – Online

After two successive droughts in 2014-15 and 2015-16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out an ambitious target to double farmers’ incomes by 2022-23. Many analysts thought he was talking about nominal incomes. But the Ashok Dalwai Committee, which was set up to chalk out a strategy to achieve this, made it clear that the target of doubling farmers’ incomes was in real terms and the goal was to be achieved over seven years with the base year of 2015-16. It clearly stated that a growth rate of 10.4 per cent per annum would be required to double farmers’ real income by 2022-23. According to an estimate of farmers’ income for 2015-16 by NABARD in ...

The Wire – Online

While the latest decennial NSS 77th round Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households (SAS) shows some improvement in the total income of farmers from various sources, a 10-percentage fall in the share of income from crop cultivation has also been reported during this period, which should be a cause for concern to policy makers. Smaller land holdings having low economic viability and increasing expenses are making farmers and their family members migrate to cities and look for alternative employment.

Mint – Online

With  the  farm  sector  seeing  a  growth  of  4.5%  in  the first quarter of FY22 and a record foodgrain production of 150.5 million tonnes (mt) during the kharif season, the hard work of farmers, proficiency of scientists, and near normal monsoons have given positive returns. The Indian farm sector exhibited a robust growth of 3.4% in FY21 and 4.5% in Q1FY22, and the exports of farm and allied products saw an increase of 21.8% in April-August. With a target of 307.3 mt of foodgrain production for FY22, the first advance estimates of the production of major kharif crops for FY22 show a record foodgrain production of 150.5 mt, 7.8 mt higher than the average foodgrain production ...

The Hans India – Online

Former Minister and senior TDP leader Yanamala Ramakrishnudu on Sunday held the Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s ‘anti-farmer’ policies responsible for the deepening crisis and steep fall in agricultural growth rate in the State. Yanamala expressed concern that both agriculture and its allied sectors were caught in a steep crisis. As a result, the percentage of population dependent on agriculture fell from 70 per cent to 50 per cent, which was an alarming fall of -20 per cent. All round problems have made the lives of cultivators very difficult to lead in Andhra Pradesh. They were getting stuck in debts and losses. The growth rate also went down by over -4.9 percent under the Jagan ...