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.
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We are extremely thankful to Vivenkananda International Foundation for enabling us to provide strategies on the topic of doubling farmers’ income by the year 2022. We are also thankful to the Department of Agriculture, Government of India, National Research Institutions, State Agricultural Universities, Corporates, International Research Centres and NGO groups for their contributions towards the report. We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance provided by J Farm Research Centre, Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE), we sincerely acknowledge Vivenkananda International Foundation for taking intitiatve particularly Gen. NC Vij, Gen. Ravi Sawhney, Mr Dhirendra Singh, IAS (Rtd.). We acknowledge Sri Shobhana K Pattanayak, IAS, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, and all other dignitaries from Government as well as private companies. We sincerely acknowledge the help and support of Dr Vikas Khitha, Head of Business Development, L&T Finance. We sincerely acknowledge the help of Dr Arbind Kumar Padhee, Director, Country Relations and Business Affairs, ICRISAT and Mr Arun Pal, ICRISAT Delhi Office for their support for smooth conduct of the workshop. We acknowledge the efforts of all the authors who put in together their expertise to write the papers. We also thank the help of reviewers for giving their constructive suggestions for improving the quality of the chapters. We appreciate the help of Mr Arun Seshadri and Dr Kristofer Dodge for editorial assistance and Ms Sri Lakshmi for word processing and formatting, Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh
Abstract
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...
| Item Type: | Monograph (Monograph) |
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| Divisions: | Research Program : Asia |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Doubling Farmers’ Income, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Transformation, Climate Change, Climate Resilient Agriculture, Integrated Watershed Management, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, National Workshop, Indian Agriculture, Agricultural growth in India, Food Security, Small Holder Farmers |
| Subjects: | Others > Food Production Others > Smallholder Farmers Mandate crops > Millets Others > Semi-Arid Tropics Others > Sustainable Agriculture Others > Smallholder Agriculture Others > Drylands Agriculture Others > Watershed Management Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics Others > Climate Change Others > Food Security Others > Indian Agriculture Others > India Others > Agricultural Economics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2017 06:06 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2018 07:01 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10339 |
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