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&lt;em&gt;Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support&lt;br /&gt;
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Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation&amp;mdash;and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&amp;mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&amp;rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;
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Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers&amp;rsquo; share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&amp;rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&amp;rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation&amp;mdash;and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&amp;mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&amp;rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers&amp;rsquo; share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&amp;rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support&lt;br /&gt;
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Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation&amp;mdash;and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&amp;mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&amp;rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.&lt;br /&gt;
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At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&amp;rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/P45AvvlBEwrMdmk6OWOOrK/How-government-can-double-farmer-incomes.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.
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&lt;em&gt;Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support&lt;br /&gt;
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Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation&amp;mdash;and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&amp;mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&amp;rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.&lt;br /&gt;
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The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;
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Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers&amp;rsquo; share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&amp;rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.&lt;br /&gt;
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At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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<br />
<em>Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support<br />
</em><br />
Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation&mdash;and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh.<br />
<br />
The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.<br />
<br />
A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.<br />
<br />
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.<br />
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At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.<br />
<br />
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.<br />
<br />
The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture.<br />
<br />
Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers&rsquo; share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM).<br />
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Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.<br />
<br />
Please <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/P45AvvlBEwrMdmk6OWOOrK/How-government-can-double-farmer-incomes.html">click here</a> to read more.
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The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.<br />
<br />
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<br />
Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.<br />
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At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.<br />
<br />
The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.<br />
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<br />
Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers&rsquo; share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM).<br />
<br />
Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.<br />
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Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support

Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">-Livemint.com<br /><br /><em>Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support<br /></em><br />Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation&mdash;and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh.<br /><br />The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability&mdash;but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity.<br /><br />A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers&rsquo; incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities.<br /><br />Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like.<br /><br />At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm.<br /><br />The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company.<br /><br />The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture.<br /><br />Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers&rsquo; share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM).<br /><br />Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee&rsquo;s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts.<br /><br />Please <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/P45AvvlBEwrMdmk6OWOOrK/How-government-can-double-farmer-incomes.html" title="http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/P45AvvlBEwrMdmk6OWOOrK/How-government-can-double-farmer-incomes.html">click here</a> to read more.</div>'
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How government can double farmer incomes

-Livemint.com Farmers need structural reforms, crop diversification and greater public investment rather than subsidies and price support Indian agriculture has been relatively untouched by the structural reforms that lifted incomes in other parts of the economy. Low farm productivity meant that governments tried to improve the lot of farmers through price policy. The problem is that engineering a shift in the terms of trade through higher support prices usually leads to generalized inflation—and that is precisely what happened during the tenure of the two governments led by Manmohan Singh. The Narendra Modi government faces a dilemma right now. The collapse of food prices has hurt farmer incomes. Ramesh Chand of the NITI Aayog has estimated that real incomes of farmers have come down by 1.36% a year over the past five years. Pushing up prices could endanger the recent macroeconomic stability—but no democratic government can ignore the obvious pain in rural areas. This is why the focus has to shift to reforms that lift farm productivity. A recent report by the Ashok Dalwai committee on doubling farmers’ incomes thus deserves attention. The solutions can be categorized into four broad areas: land, access to markets, increase in productivity and diversification towards high-yield crops and non-farm activities. Starting with land, it is well known that land holdings in India are small and fragmented, 86% of them being smaller than 2 hectares. Holdings are too small for the use of modern implements, farmers have to rely on informal sources of lending and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and volatile prices for their produce. Small farmers, who are already very poor, are forced to bear more risk than they would like. At the same time, various studies reveal that at any time, 5-10% of the arable land is left fallow because the adverse possession laws discourage leasing. Even when they are leased out, it is usually an oral lease that does not give the lessee legal protection, preventing him from accessing formal credit and discouraging investment in the farm. The Union government has framed the model agricultural land lease law, 2016 and the draft model contract farming law, 2018 to mitigate these problems by allowing absentee landowners to lease out land without fear of losing title. Similarly, contract farming should help farmers as the sponsoring companies can shield them from their post-harvest anxiety about prices, while farmers can benefit from pooled purchases of inputs at affordable prices and access to machinery and knowledge provided by the sponsoring company. The key point is that farmers do not have to be experts at growing crops and predicting prices. They should be free to take on either, neither or both of these roles. Indeed, just 1.2% of rural youth aspire to work in agriculture, according to the 2017 Annual Survey of Education Report (Aser) by Pratham. Apart from the limited employment opportunities outside farming, the restrictions on leasing and selling arable land make it difficult for farmers to exit agriculture. Coming to access to markets, agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) have perpetuated monopolistic intermediaries. The Ashok Dalwai committee notes that farmers’ share in the market price is low, and generally varies from 15-40%. Given the resistance to the model APMC law of 2003, the Union government has introduced a model agricultural produce and livestock marketing (APLM) law, 2017 that is intended to replace the existing APMC Act, and allow a single market within a state, freeing farmers to trade at private wholesale markets, allowing them to sell directly to bulk buyers, and promoting trading on the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM). Even the international trade policy is used to favour consumers. When prices increase, import tariffs are reduced in order to increase supply while the minimum export price is used to restrict or ban the export of a commodity in reaction to its rising prices for the consumer. These short-term adjustments in tariffs disrupt any planning or relationship building in international trade, adding to the already existing risks and uncertainties. The committee’s report bats for a stable trade regime, structured on predetermined signals that will allow stakeholders to predict the change in policy with the crop forecasts. Please click here to read more.