Strategies for Improving Productivity of Rice, Wheat, Maize, Sugarcane and Cotton
Mousumi Malo
Assistant Director of Agriculture, Model Farm, Jayrambati, Bankura, West Bengal (722 161), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Agriculture, Crops, Doubling farmers’ income, Yields
Abstract
The target of doubling farmers’ income in a short period requires identification of sources of income growth and enabling conditions for harnessing their growth potential. Agriculture is the main source of farmers’ income in India; therefore, technological and institutional policy options for making agriculture a remunerative enterprise are suggested. Huge gaps exist between realized and potential yields of most crops that can be bridged to a large extent by enhancing farmers’ access to key inputs, irrigation, markets, and credit and extension services. However, extreme price volatility acts as disincentive to adopt productivity enhancing technologies. Post-harvest management and small scale processing would help the farmers to capture benefits of value addition. Effective coordination between centre and states is important in mainstreaming and channelizing policies and investment to achieve the target of doubling farmers’ income.
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