relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10339/
title: Doubling Farmers’ Income: KISAN–MITrA, Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scalingup: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for  Transforming Agriculture)
creator: Wani, S P
creator: Jakkula, V S
creator: Singh, D
subject: Food Production
subject: Smallholder Farmers
subject: Millets
subject: Semi-Arid Tropics
subject: Sustainable Agriculture
subject: Smallholder Agriculture
subject: Drylands Agriculture
subject: Watershed Management
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: Climate Change
subject: Food Security
subject: Indian Agriculture
subject: India
subject: Agricultural Economics
description: India holds 142 million hectares of arable land in 137 million farm households and has 46 of the 60 soil  types in the world with 15 agro climatic zones varying from arid to humid tropics, hot arid deserts to  cold deserts with varying annual rainfall 11,873 mm at Mawsynram, Meghalaya to 166 mm at Jaisalmer,  Rajasthan. It is the largest producer of spices, pulses, milk, tea, cashew and jute; and the second largest  producer of wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables, sugarcane, cotton and oilseeds.  Inspite of these remarkable figures, agriculture contributes to only 17% to the national gross domestic  product value by 56 per cent of population engaged in farming. The stagnated growth rate of 3.1 % and  food security for the ever-growing population in India along with poverty amongst rural population  has always been a challenging task. In order to tackle this situation, a total of 60 selected participants  representing Department of Agriculture, Government of India, national research institutions, state  agricultural universities, corporates, international research centres and NGO groups brainstormed on the  topic of doubling farmers’ income by the year 2022 as envisioned by Hon. Prime Minister of India Shri  Narendra Modi...
publisher: ICRISAT
date: 2017
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10339/1/Kisan%20Mitra.pdf
identifier:   Wani, S P and Jakkula, V S and Singh, D  (2017) Doubling Farmers’ Income: KISAN–MITrA, Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scalingup: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for Transforming Agriculture).  Monograph. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad.