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Employment Generation: Agriculture remains the largest employer in India, providing livelihoods to a significant percentage of the population, especially in rural areas. The sector supports the livelihoods of millions of farmers, farm laborers, and those engaged in ancillary activities.
Food Security: Agriculture is the primary source of food production, ensuring the availability of food grains, fruits, vegetables, and other essential commodities. A robust agricultural sector is crucial for national food security.
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Low Mechanization Levels: The use of machinery and technology in Indian agriculture is relatively low. Manual labor-intensive farming practices contribute to inefficiency and lower productivity.
Input Subsidies and Pricing Policies: Distorted input subsidies and pricing policies can lead to imbalances in resource allocation, affecting the overall productivity of the agricultural sector.
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Policies and economics of Profitable Agriculture by Harish J
1. Policies and economics of Profitable Agriculture.
Harish J.
Introduction
India is the one of the fastest growing economy in the world, It having diversity in geography,
economy and ethically. India accounts for 18% of world population but having 0.15 ha per capita
land, which leads to land scarce for agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone for Indian economy,
it plays very important role to boost up the national economy since decades. It is a key sector to
contribute in both employment and GDP. In India, since 2011, production has been raising at an
average of 3.6% annually. Economic growth around 7% over the last 5 years makes India one of
the fastest growing economies.
But, somehow the contribution of the agriculture sector to GDP has continued in decreasing
trend over two decades from 29% in 1990 to 17% in 2016. Indian Agriculture lag behind due to
key challenges like Land fragmentation, long supply chain ,risks in long term production, Water
crisis, Improper linkage to downstream sectors, less opportunities for global value chains, etc.
To cope up with these problems, regulation or implementation of agricultural policies is needed.
Agricultural policies are the set of laws relating to agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural
products, usually government implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific
outcome in the domestic product markets. It helps to upgrade the income and increase the standard
of living of farmers within in time bound. Agricultural policies has remained a highly structural
sector in India with government organizations, Government taken agricultural policies during mid
1960's,Initially it focuses on food self-sufficiency in staple food grains like rice and wheat, later
on years, it focuses on cultivated area, introduction of land reforms, community development,
minimum support price, public storage, procurement and distribution of food grains, etc. In India,
the policies main aim is to remove the problems regarding agriculture and solve the complications
related to improper and inefficient use of natural resources, poor cost-benefit ratio of the sectoral
activities, ineffective functions of cooperative farming, etc. This policies are formulated for all-
round and comprehensive development of the agricultural sector.
Objectives of agricultural policies
2. Increasing the productivity of Inputs: It is the one of the most important objective of the policy
is to improve the productivity of inputs like high yielding varieties, fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation
projects etc.
Modernization in agriculture: Introduction and invention of modern scientific technologies in
agricultural operation and application in order to improve the agricultural input products.
Raising value added/hectare: Increasing per hectare value added rather than raising physical
output by raising the productivity of small and marginal holdings.
Protecting the interests of small/marginal farmers: Protection of small and marginal farmers
by removing arbitrators by using land reforms and providing institutional credit to support to
farmers.
Yield enhancement of major commodities: Production of major crops and livestock is less
compared to other countries in the world. Increase in food production easily meet the country's
population demand.
Agricultural research and training: Encouragement for agricultural research and training by
providing facilities in order to saturate the outcome of research among the farmers by creating a
close link between research institutions and farmers.
Monitoring of environmental degradation: Agricultural policy of India has set another objective
to monitor environmental degradation of natural resources or base of agriculture.
Removing bureaucratic obstacles: To remove the bureaucratic obstacles on the farmers-
cooperative societies and self-help groups to work independently.
Key challenges
Productivity lags behind other parts of the region: The large share of employment in agriculture
compared to GDP contribution reflects the slow pace of structural transformation and the relatively
low labour, productivity. farm labour productivity growth is still in back position compared to
China, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc., land productivity has been raising over the years. Average yields
of major crops are still less compared to other countries. Agriculture has been slow because of
labours low level of education and lack of skill.
3. Fragmented land use patterns:In India,Fragmentation of land goes on increasing trend,whose
average size is 1.15 ha and still less.This sectors includes majorily marginal and small scale
farmers,nearly 85% of the operational holdings are less than 2 ha in India,5% of farmers holding
more than 4ha of arable land.Land tenure governance in India is very complicate both in
legislation and organisational framework.
Supply chains are long and disintegrated: Gaps in the supply chains(Physical infrastructure and
logistics)reduces the chances of establishment of efficient agrofood supply chain,market
infrastructure also highly suffered due to unintended impacts of regulations in markets for
agriculture produce.Limited connectivity and inadequate storage leads to post harvest losses and
effect the incentives to the produce.The highest postharvest losses are occured in fruits and
vegetables in 2015 is 4% and 16%respectively.
Linkages to input markets are so weak:Eventhough availbility,acess,quality of farm inputs and
services have been improved over the years,their distribution across the different size cateogries
of farmers remains same.Informal chains still present in the seed and fertilizer markets,about 60%
of seeds are used to sown which are saved by farmers,only 39% of holdings use certified seeds
and 9.8% of hybrid seeds.The cost of HYV in formal channels highly cost and small farmers cannot
afford.
Linkage to downstream sectors are weak:Food processing and retail sectors have been growing
fastly over the years ,but major drawback is they are under privatisation.It require more
expenditure,infrastructure,high labour intensive,more capital intensive unorganised
segment.Absence of adequate connectivity,improper imformation and marketing linkages.
Pressures on natural resources risk reducing long term production growth:Land degradation
is the more effective throughout the country 37% of the total land area is affected by different
types of degradation,improper application of fertlizers(time,quantity,place)Chemical fertlizers
contribute to greenhouse gases,water pollution and soil contamination.India also suffering from
severe water crisis due to long gap between water supply and need,Poor water resources
management,changing in precipitation patterns due to climate abnormalities.Total water demand
will raise by 32% by 2050 due to population growth.Putting water reserves under pressure and
causing ground water depletion rapidly.
4. Food and nutritional insecurity:Significant proportion of the population is a risk of falling back
to food insecurity under certain conditions,performance in terms of nutritional quality has been
less strong.Incidence of poverty in India is goes on increasing.
Agricultural policies in India.
Central government launched number of schemes such as Pradhan manthri krishi sinchayi
yojana,Pradhan mantri fasal bhima yojana,Neem-coated urea,Soil health card and e-NAM.Now
the major aim of agricultural policies to focus on the principle of profitability but not principle of
productivity in case of farming.
Institutional and governance reforms:They are many reforms relating to agricultural
marketing,warehousing,land leasing,contract farming etc., Replacing open ended subsidies with
direct benefit transfers for fertlizers and seeds would not just help target the right end users in the
system,but also encourages efficient and judicious application of these inputs.Agriculture is the
state subject,past experiance shows that no agricultural development on the ground is possible
without meaningful intervensions by state governments,In addition to these are issues concerning
revitalising farm extension network,skilling youth for setting up scientific agri-food based
enterprises promoting institutional credit structure,development of postharvest management and
encouragement for farmers producing organisations.
Climate smart Agri technologies:Adaption and mitigation stratgies to monitor climate changes
challenges have to be at the fore foot of any agricultural policy.Research has to designed to suit
local cropping patterns and promote sustainable farm management in means of soil,water and
energy.A large genepool is available in many crops which allows for selection,breeding and
developing new varieties tolerant to stresses like biotic and abiotic.The rationale of climate smart
agriculture(CSA)has to be appreciated by decision makers and stakeholders at all levels.DFI by
2022 is not achievable, without making farmers resilient to climate change impacts and promoting
CSA practices that sustainably increase productivity and income.
Food and nutrition security:There can be no inclusive growth without nutrition security,that
would entail a shift in focus from calorie intake towards delivering nutrition.Neglected crops such
5. as pulses and millets are fortunately now receiving attention,not only because of their high protein
and nutrition characterstics,but also for their climate resilence and low carbon and water foot
prints.Creating a potential a markets for growers of these smart crops.The government should
move from a cereal-centric policy focused on subsidised procurement and distribution of rice and
wheat to a diversified mix of nutritious millets and legumes.National nutrition mission helps in
procurement,inclusion of millet based products in midday meals programmes and additional
incentives beyond support farm expert policy.
Stable farm export policy:India ranks second in overall agricultural production, next only to
China. But the country’s export basket hardly reflects its huge crop diversity and potential to
generate a significant farm trade surplus. Without an open and stable farm export policy, there’s
no predictability for farmers to access global markets and obtain the best possible prices for their
produce. Movement to high-value crops (in protected cultivation, wherever possible), developing
and exploiting the market for organic produce, creating farm export clusters, complying with
international food-safety requirements, and doing away with multiple authorities for
monitoring/regulating agricultural trade are the need of the hour. It calls for an aggressive
agricultural trade policy.
Digital Agriculture as backbone for modern farming: Use of ICT has been successfully tested
for timely delivery of cropping, weather and price information to farmers. While information on
markets leads to better price discovery and enables producers to capture a higher proportion of the
marketable value, delivery of advisory services through digital and social media platforms can take
care of the inadequacies of traditional farm extension delivery systems. All these digital agriculture
initiatives require a robust data infrastructure, which, when integrated with Aadhaar, will also
make for a monitoring and evaluation system to track farmer incomes and implementation of
various government programmes and subsidy-linked schemes. Private agri-business agencies
should also be made meaningful partners in this endeavor.
An integrated value-chain approach:Farmers must be integrated into modern value chains that
can raise their incomes and also minimise the risks arising from middlemen and markets. There
should be integration of post-harvest, marketing and processing infrastructures, adding value and
6. quality to the raw produce of farmers. Also, technologies suited to respective agro-ecologies need
to be put in place here and demonstrated to growers whose produce can be aggregated through
FPOs/FPCs.
Reforming market regulations and strengthening market functioning: Indian farmers are
receiving prices which are lower than the prices prevailing on the comparable international
markets.First and foremost efforts to deploy and implement reforms already designed, such
as the new model APMC Act and e-NAM, could be reinforced including inter alia the
rationalisation of levies and fees and to provide recourse for both consumers and producers
when faced with uncompetitive practices.Supply chain arrangements should be fostered which
could help overcome deficiencies in the current market environment.Improve transparency
on market conditions and prices and consider investing in a price observatory.
The Minimum Support Prices:Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention
by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices.
The minimum support prices are announced by the Government of India at the beginning of the
sowing season for certain crops on the basis of the recommendations of the Commission for
Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP). MSP is price fixed by Government of India to protect the
producer - farmers - against excessive fall in price during bumper production years. The minimum
support prices are a guarantee price for their produce from the Government. The major objectives
are to support the farmers from distress sales and to procure food grains for public distribution. In
case the market price for the commodity falls below the announced minimum price due to bumper
production and glut in the market, government agencies purchase the entire quantity offered by the
farmers at the announced minimum price.The government at Cabinet Committee level currently
sets Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for 24 agricultural commodities.
Pradhan mathri fasal bhima yojana(PMFBY):To provide insurance coverage and financial
support to the farmers in the event of failure of any of the notified crop as a result of natural
calamities,pests and diseases.It stabilise the income of farmers to ensure their continuance in
farming and encourage farmers to adopt innovative and modern agricultural practices.It also
ensure flow of credit to the agriculture sector.There will be a uniform premium of only 2% to be
paid by farmers for all Kharif crops and 1.5% for all Rabi crops.In case of annual commercial and
7. horticultural crops, the premium to be paid by farmers will be only 5%.PMFBY is a replacement
scheme of NAIS.
Pradhan manthri kisan samman nidhi yojana: Under the scheme an income support of Rs.6000
per year in three equal instalments will be provided to small and marginal farmer families having
combined land holding/ownership of upto 2 hectares.State Government and UT Administration
will identify the farmer families which are eligible for support as per scheme guidelines.The fund
will be directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
11.Farmers producing organisations:Mobilising farmers into groups of between 15-20 members
at the village level.Strengthening farmer capacity through agricultural best practices for enhanced
productivity.Ensuring usage of quality inputs and services for intensive agriculture.Facilitating
fair and remunerative markets including linking of producer groups to marketing opportunities.
12.Contract farming:It involves agricultural production being carried on the basis of an
agreement between the buyer and farm producers.The farmer undertakes to supply agreed
quantities of a crop or livestock product.In return, the buyer, usually a company, agrees to buy the
product, often at a price that is established in advance.Company also supports by providing inputs.
Conclusion
India's agriculture was in critical condition by facing many multiple challenges.
Government promoted Agriculture in all possible ways to mitigate the problems. The possible
ways are agricultural policies, these policy directions will play a major role in India's sucess in
food security for its high population, improving quality and standard of living of millions of small
holders. Agriculture and food policy settings also need to proper arrangement for better results or
to relect the changing nature of agriculture role in growing economy. Government aims to improve
the prospects of small/marginal farmers, improve the effectiveness of food security measures.
Profitable Agriculture and doubling of farmers income aims should fulfill only by 100%
implementation of these agricultural policies which can reach upto village level, otherwise there
will be a negative impact on farmers as well as agriculture sector. Government aims at to make
farmers income double by 2022 will achieved only proper policy making and implementation. If
we get success profitable agriculture then directly leads to fulfil of the goal "Doubling of farmers
8. income".
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