Kindly click here and here to access the main findings of the report titled A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045 (released on 30th March, 2021) by International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and ETC Group. — Kindly click here to access the report entitled Price Rise of Essential Commodities–Causes and Effects, Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and…
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The CAG report on Performance Audit of Agriculture Crop Insurance Schemes (Report no. 7 of 2017), which was tabled in the Parliament on 21 July, 2017 (please click here to access) says that the Government of India (GOI) has introduced several crop insurance schemes over the past three decades to insure the farming community against various risks like…
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Please click here to access the key findings of the report entitled: Key Indicators of Land and Livestock Holdings in India, NSS 70th Round (published in December 2014). Please click here to access the full report entitled: Key Indicators of Land and Livestock Holdings in India, NSS 70th Round. The study entitled State of Indian Farmers: A Report (2014), done…
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According to Agriculture–Pathways to Prosperity in Asia and the Pacific, March 2011, http://www.ifad.org/pub/apr/pathways.pdf: • Intensity of multidimensional poverty (MPI) is highest in South Asia, which houses 29.5 percent of global population, but has 51 per cent of the world’s multi-dimensionally poor. India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan have high MPIs in South Asia. 51 per cent of…
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According to Some Aspects of Operational Land Holdings in India, 2002-03, Report No. 492(59/18.1/3), National Sample Survey 59th Round (January–December 2003), August, 2006: A sample of 52,265 rural households and 29,893 urban households was surveyed in the sixth Land Holding Survey of NSS, carried out in 2003. The following highlights relate to rural India only. • There…
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According to the World Development Report: Agriculture for Development 2008, www.worldbank.org • Diversification of Indian agriculture towards high-value crops such as horticulture and floriculture is needed so as to promote income-generation among the small and marginal farmers. Markets for higher value products such as horticulture are growing at 6 percent a year in India. Horticulture, livestock, and other…
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According to the World Development Report: Agriculture for Development 2008, www.worldbank.org • Diversification of Indian agriculture towards high-value crops such as horticulture and floriculture is needed so as to promote income-generation among the small and marginal farmers. Markets for higher value products such as horticulture are growing at 6 percent a year in India. Horticulture, livestock, and other…
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The key findings of the report titled Key Indicators of Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households in India, NSS 70th Round (published in December 2014) (January, 2013- December, 2013) are as follows (Please click here to access): • The NSS 59th Round (January-December 2003) had found that 48.6% farmer households were indebted while the NSS 70th Round (January-December 2013)…
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According to the Report no. 3 of 2013-Union Government (Ministry of Finance)-Report of the CAG on Implementation of Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme. 2008,http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/Our_Products/Audit_Report/Government_Wise/union_audit/recent_reports/union_performance/2013/Comm/Report_3/Report_3.html: • The Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme (ADWDRS), 2008 was launched in May 2008 to address the problems and difficulties faced by the farming community in repayment…
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