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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt panel recommends radical overhaul of farming ecosystem -Sayantan Bera

Govt panel recommends radical overhaul of farming ecosystem -Sayantan Bera

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published Published on Dec 20, 2018   modified Modified on Dec 20, 2018
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Panel on doubling farm incomes proposes shifting from supply-led to demand-led production system

New Delhi:
The government should undertake a radical overhaul of the agriculture ecosystem by moving from a supply-push production system to a demand-led one, according to a committee set up by the centre to recommend strategies to double farmer incomes by 2022.

The agriculture ministry should also set up an “empowered committee” to operationalize and monitor progress of doubling of farm income strategies, the panel recommended in its report submitted to the ministry on Monday, a copy of which has been reviewed by Mint.

The recommendations come against the backdrop of large-scale unrest among farmers, which have already led to multiple demonstrations across India, and the promise by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union ministry of doubling farm incomes by 2022.

The interministerial committee, headed by the additional secretary in the agriculture ministry, Ashok Dalwai, had been set up in April 2016. The panel has since then submitted 13 volumes of draft recommendations on different aspects, from marketing and post-harvest management to the role of science and risk management, and clarified that the goal is not to double nominal but real or inflation-adjusted farm incomes between 2015-16 and 2022-23.

“It is time to recognize agriculture in India as an enterprise” which calls for “optimal scale of operations”, the committee said in its final report. To bypass challenges posed by small farm sizes, it suggested land pooling, aggregation of farmers’ produce by creating village-level producer companies, use of contract farming, and engagement of professional service providers to whom a group of farmers can outsource day-to-day operations of their farms, from pest management to irrigation.

The service area can be a few hundred or thousand acres outsourced by a group of farmers against payment or entering into a service contract, the report said.

The report also suggested the reorganization of production systems through the adoption of a market-led crop geometry that will entail a shift in emphasis from common cereals such as rice and wheat to nutri-cereals, from producing carbs to proteins, and field crops to dairy, livestock and fisheries.

Water management should be assigned the highest priority by bringing in 2-2.5 million hectares under micro irrigation every year and promoting agro-climatic based cropping systems, the panel said.

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