Kisan Pathshala for doubling farmers’ incomes

Ever since PM Narendra Modi announced his target of doubling farmers’ incomes by 2022 at a farmers’ rally in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in 2016, the Centre, as well as several state governments, have remained occupied with evolving ways and means to achieve this target by the proposed deadline. The UP gover...

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Autores principales: Verma, Smriti, Kumar, Anjani
Formato: Opinion Piece
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Indian Express Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147324
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Sumario:Ever since PM Narendra Modi announced his target of doubling farmers’ incomes by 2022 at a farmers’ rally in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in 2016, the Centre, as well as several state governments, have remained occupied with evolving ways and means to achieve this target by the proposed deadline. The UP government’s Million Farmers’ School (MFS) programme is one such innovative effort to enhance farmers’ incomes through dissemination of agriculture-related information on technology, government schemes, and modern farming methods.