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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farm distress is now haunting us: NITI Aayog's Rajiv Kumar -Sayantan Bera

Farm distress is now haunting us: NITI Aayog's Rajiv Kumar -Sayantan Bera

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published Published on Apr 6, 2018   modified Modified on Apr 6, 2018
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The NITI Aayog and the government have decided to focus only and only on farmers and the agriculture sector, says NITI Aayog VC Rajiv Kumar

New Delhi:
The spectre of farm distress has finally begun to haunt policymakers and the government is doing everything it can to address the situation, Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman of central government think tank NITI Aayog, said on Friday.

“We in the NITI Aayog and the government have decided it is finally time we must focus only and only on farmers and farmers’ distress,” Kumar said, adding, “that’s a real issue which is beginning to haunt us... and (the issue is) so amazingly complex.”

“Thirty-eight per cent of our children are undernourished... and 60 million tonnes of foodgrains are being stocked somewhere while farmers are throwing away their produce (for want of a fair price)... I think it’s just a crying shame,” Kumar said at an event organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute in Delhi.

“Despite six decades of agricultural development, we still have a situation like this and it’s time to introspect deeply,” Kumar said.

“For the next few years, we have to concentrate on curbing hunger and malnutrition, and make sure that our farmers come up to the same level as their urban counterparts,” he added

Kumar’s comments come in the wake of repeated farmer protests, beginning in June last year, following a record harvest and a sharp fall in crop prices.

Farmers in several states are demanding fair prices and loan waivers, even as the central government has set an ambitious target to double farm incomes by 2022.

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