Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?

Recognizing that the growing distress among farming community may disturb socio-political equilibrium and affect nation’s food security the government of India in its budget of 2016-17 has set a policy target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. To achieve this, the government has announced a number...

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Autores principales: Birthal, Pratap S., Negi, Digvijay S., Roy, Devesh
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147553
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author Birthal, Pratap S.
Negi, Digvijay S.
Roy, Devesh
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description Recognizing that the growing distress among farming community may disturb socio-political equilibrium and affect nation’s food security the government of India in its budget of 2016-17 has set a policy target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. To achieve this, the government has announced a number of innovative measures that include improving farmers’ access to institutions (i.e. credit, insurance, information, common markets), development of infrastructure (i.e. irrigation, electricity and roads), restoring soil health, improving efficiency of agricultural markets, expanding dairy processing facilities and enhancing farmers’ capacity to diversify into nonfarm activities.
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spelling CGSpace1475532025-03-03T18:58:18Z Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how? Birthal, Pratap S. Negi, Digvijay S. Roy, Devesh income agricultural policies geographical distribution institutions agricultural development infrastructure poverty farm size Recognizing that the growing distress among farming community may disturb socio-political equilibrium and affect nation’s food security the government of India in its budget of 2016-17 has set a policy target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. To achieve this, the government has announced a number of innovative measures that include improving farmers’ access to institutions (i.e. credit, insurance, information, common markets), development of infrastructure (i.e. irrigation, electricity and roads), restoring soil health, improving efficiency of agricultural markets, expanding dairy processing facilities and enhancing farmers’ capacity to diversify into nonfarm activities. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:01Z 2024-06-21T09:23:01Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147553 en National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Birthal, Pratap S.; Negi, Digvijay S.; and Roy, Devesh. 2017. Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how? Policy Paper 30. New Delhi, India: NIAP. https://niap.icar.gov.in/pdf/Policypaper30.pdf
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agricultural policies
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agricultural development
infrastructure
poverty
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Birthal, Pratap S.
Negi, Digvijay S.
Roy, Devesh
Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?
title Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?
title_full Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?
title_fullStr Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?
title_short Enhancing farmers' income: who to target and how?
title_sort enhancing farmers income who to target and how
topic income
agricultural policies
geographical distribution
institutions
agricultural development
infrastructure
poverty
farm size
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