1. ACADEMIC WRITING
TOPIC:-AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES IN
INDIA
Submitted by
MUHAMMED BASIL P
Application no: a76d5780ece011e98126030a6a4d4f2c
Department of economic studies
Central university of Punjab, Bathinda
2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my gratitude to the online course Academic
writing because of which I could prepare this presentation. I also extend
my sincere gratitude to the course coordinator Dr. Ajay semalty who has
given a wonderful lecture on the course.
4. INTRODUCTION
• Agriculture subsidies plays an important role India's
economy.
• Subsidies are among the most powerful instruments for
manipulation or balancing the growth rate of production.
• It protect the weaker section of the farmers in India.
• At present, in terms of agricultural production, the country
holds the second position all over the world.
5. OBJECTIVES
• To study agriculture subsidies in India.
• To know the type of government agriculture subsidies & criteria for
distribution in India.
• To find out allocation of fund for agriculture subsidies in annual
budget of India.
6. MAJOR TYPES OF AGRICULTURE
SUBSIDIES IN INDIA
• Food subsidies
• Fertilizer subsidies
• Credit subsidies
• Irrigation subsidies
• Power subsidies
• Seed subsidies
7. DISTRIBUTION OF SUBSIDIES IN INDIA
The subsidies can be distributed among farmers according to a set of
selected criteria,
• Merit
• Income-level
• Social group
8. ALLOCATION FOR SUBSIDIES ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE FOR
LAST 4 YEARS
Item 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Food subsidy
1394.19 1101.73 1402.82 1693.23
Fertilizer subsidy
724.15 663.13 663.13 700.80
Credit subsidy
130.00 133.97 147.50 150.00
Source: annual budget
9. CONCLUSION
• Agriculture subsidies concentrate significant change over the total
agriculture production in India.
• The amount of agriculture subsidies is increasing year by year.
• The agriculture subsidies are distributed by every year but, its
percentage is very low and numbers of dependent is very large in
India.
• The government of India took serious measure for development of
agriculture subsidies .
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