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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre must publish data on farmers’ income: Ramesh Chand, Niti Aayog -Sandip Das

Centre must publish data on farmers’ income: Ramesh Chand, Niti Aayog -Sandip Das

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published Published on Jan 19, 2016   modified Modified on Jan 19, 2016
-The Financial Express

In a bid to effectively deal with the current agriculture crisis, the government must publish annual data on farmers’ income for ensuring that the programmes and policies are focused towards their welfare, Ramesh Chand, member, Niti Aayog, said on Sunday.

In a bid to effectively deal with the current agriculture crisis, the government must publish annual data on farmers’ income for ensuring that the programmes and policies are focused towards their welfare, Ramesh Chand, member, Niti Aayog, said on Sunday.

“Our national accounts statistics by Central Statistical Organisation do not publish data on farmers’ income and if we do not know about the level of their income, the focus on their welfare would be difficult,” Chand said at the inauguration of the National Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Chand, also a leading agricultural economist, said the crisis in agriculture sector is mostly compounded by depressed prices of various agricultural commodities while the output had been impacted by the two successive deficient monsoon years — 2014 and 2015.

“Since last two years, the agriculture sector is facing peculiar crisis as despite fall in national foodgrain output, the prices have been subdued for the most of commodities thus adversely impacting the farmers’ income,” he noted.

Terming the reports of farmers’ suicides as the fallout of decrease in their income, Chand said that after 2008, when average commodities prices rose by as high as 30%, the farmers real income grew by around 4%. However, afterwards the commodities prices crashed since 2012, the farmers’ income had been hit thus deepening the agricultural crisis.

Stating that around 25 lakh farmers annually leave agriculture sector because ‘its no-more a remunerative option’, however most of these farmers do not sell or leave their land thus impacting productivity. Chand recommended relaxation in land lease laws so that people can take up agricultural activities in these farms which are leased by the farmers.

“According to an assessment, 53% of the farmers would remain in poverty if they do not get income also from non-agricultural activities,” he observed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi would attend the two-day national conference on organic farming on Monday where he would officially declared Sikkim as organic state. According to state government officials, Sikkim has become country’s first fully organic state by converting around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land into sustainable cultivation.


The Financial Express, 18 January, 2016, http://www.financialexpress.com/article/economy/centre-must-publish-data-on-farmers-income-ramesh-chand-niti-aayog/196610/


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