TopicFarmers income

Topic: Farmers income

Budget 2022 shows agriculture under change. Gone are talks about doubling farmers’ income

Shweta Saini - 1 February, 2022

The changes in budgetary allocations of key schemes will likely affect the Indian agriculture sector. Budget 2022 should lay the foundation for PM Modi's ‘Amrit Kaal’.

Meghalaya farmer is now richer than Punjab’s

Shweta Saini - 16 September, 2021

An average Indian farmer household now earns most of the income working as labourer and from other non-farm activities.

NSS survey on farmers is a mid-term report card of Modi’s promise, with ‘fail’ written over it

Yogendra Yadav - 15 September, 2021

The NSS survey conceals more than it reveals. It gives the impression that there is at least some progress. But that is misleading.

Modi govt official finally let it slip — doubling farmers’ income by 2022 was always a mirage

Yogendra Yadav - 31 March, 2021

In the five years since it was announced, what has the Modi govt’s Doubling of Farmers’ Income plan achieved? Air-time, TRPs, and votes for the BJP.

FCI’s conflicting roles are reason why it fails to benefit India’s poorest farmers

Omkar Sathe - 24 February, 2021

The FCI’s price support for farmers is one of the largest welfare programmes in India. But it is largely ineffective in reaching those who need it most.

Find ‘progressive farmers’, honour them — Yogi govt scheme to help raise farm income

Prashant Srivastava - 6 January, 2021

As part of Mission Kisan Kalyan, launched Wednesday, UP plans to pick 100 ‘progressive’ farmers from each district who have improved income using innovating techniques.

Farmers in Sirsa have a message for Modi govt — Get ready for a winter of discontent

Yogendra Yadav - 14 October, 2020

From a young girl breaking her gullak to fund the morcha to youth with engineering degrees joining the protest, it’s a different farmers’ movement against Modi govt’s farm laws.

Farm reform bills are a beginning, not the agricultural equivalent of 1991

TN Ninan - 26 September, 2020

Govt says farmer should be free to sell to who he chooses, where he chooses, when he chooses. But fact is outcomes vary across crops & geographies, over time.

India’s agriculture departments are complex. But Odisha is using data to fix it

Ankur Bansal - 20 January, 2020

In growing calls for mechanisation, Indian states have overlooked governance in agriculture. But Odisha didn't and here's how it revamped its agriculture sector.