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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | We did not manage to double the income of Indian farmers -Himanshu

We did not manage to double the income of Indian farmers -Himanshu

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published Published on Dec 29, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 1, 2023

-Livemint.com

Multiple surveys indicate that we not only missed that goal but our rural economy is in deep distress

On 28 February 2016, at a farmer rally in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the government’s intention of doubling the income of farmers by 2022, a year marking 75 years of India’s independence. That it was not just political rhetoric but a real project was evident from the follow-up. An expert committee headed by Ashok Dalwai submitted a report on Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) in 14 volumes.

While the aim is welcome and has been reiterated several times by government functionaries, there is no clarity on who a ‘farmer’ is and what is meant by farmer’s income. Immediately after the announcement, Niti Aayog brought out a policy paper (policy paper no.1/2017) authored by Ramesh Chand, member in-charge of agriculture, providing benchmark estimates of farmers’ incomes and details on doubling these. This was a straightforward calculation of what constitutes farmers’ income and has been used earlier in academic studies. The policy paper had estimates of incomes of cultivators until 2015-16, which was treated as the base year. By its data, real farm income per cultivator had increased by a paltry 0.44% per year between 2011-12 and 2015-16, as against a 7.5% increase between 2004-05 and 2011-12. It had declined 0.55% per year between 1999-00 and 2004-05, during the term of the first National Democratic Alliance (NDA-1) government.

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Livemint.com, 29 December, 2022, https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/we-did-not-manage-to-double-the-income-of-indian-farmers-11672333784771.html


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