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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | It's Time Agricultural Production Kept Pace With India’s Changing Food Preferences -Seema Bathla and Siraj Hussain

It's Time Agricultural Production Kept Pace With India’s Changing Food Preferences -Seema Bathla and Siraj Hussain

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published Published on Jan 15, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 17, 2021

-TheWire.in

Going forward, processed foods, with both low and high levels of secondary processing, offers significant potential for non-farm jobs, and equally makes agriculture remunerative.

India takes pride in producing surplus food-grains, oilseeds, spices, milk, fruits and vegetables.

Many a time, due to a large supply of agricultural produce, market prices crash, leaving the farmers out in the cold. Low bargaining power, lack of storage infrastructure and inadequate cold storage facilities in the designated APMC mandis or nearby make it challenging for the farmers to receive a fair return for their produce.

There appears to be structural imbalances on the supply side, which have to be addressed keeping in view the demand side of the food system. The food habits of people, especially in urban areas, have been changing fast towards more diversified and processed foods due to rising income levels, changing lifestyles and growing urbanisation.

In this context, there is an urgent need for each state to make a regional plan on the cropping pattern that farmers should adopt in view of the changing food preferences of people, availability of natural resources and movement of prices.

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TheWire.in, 15 January, 2021, https://thewire.in/agriculture/food-preferences-india-agricultural-production


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