 Enhancing Farmers’ Income: Who to Target and How?Pratap Birthal, Digvijay S. Negi and Devesh Roy No 344988, Policy Papers from ICAR National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP) Abstract: Agriculture supports more than half of India’s population, but the per capita income of farmers is only about one-fifth of the average per capita income of the country. Moreover, the farming community now has been experiencing a situation of distress on account of several factors, such as declining landholding size, rising cost of production, increasing frequency of extreme climatic events, viz. droughts, heat waves and floods, and poor prospects of employment outside agriculture. In order to improve the economic status of farmers the government of India in its annual budget of 2016-17 set a policy target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, and reiterated its commitment in the budget of 2017-18 as well. This is a challenging task, but not difficult if the growth strategies are appropriately designed and targeted. By identifying target farmers and their locations; and infrastructural and institutional requirements this paper suggests pathways and policy choices for enhancing farmers’ income. Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:icar24:344988 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Policy Papers from ICAR National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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