I'm HARSHIT MISHRA, M.Sc.(Ag) Agril. Economics, ANDUAT, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, UP

1. “ Economic
Measures for
Doubling Farmer’s
Income by 2022 ”
PRESENTED BY :
HARSHIT MISHRA
ID No. A-11672/20
ANDUAT, Kumarganj,
Ayodhya
SUPERVISOR :
Dr. K. K. SINGH
(Incharge)
ANDUAT, Kumarganj,
Ayodhya

2. Content
Need and Challenges
Roadmap and Action Plans
Conclusion
References
Why Double Farmers Income?
Past Trend in Farmers Income
Source of Growth in Farmer’s Income
Introduction
Related Steps Taken by Government

3. INTRODUCTION
o The vision of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 by
Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi was announced
by the Honorable Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley during
his budget speech on February 29, 2016.
o Past strategy for development of the agriculture sector in
India has focused primarily on raising agriculture output
and improving food security. This strategy involved
• An increase in productivity through better technology
and varieties.
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4. • Incentive structure in the form of
remunerative prices for same crops and
subsidies on farm inputs.
• Public investments in the agriculture.
• Facilitating institutions. Increased use of
quality seeds, fertilizer, irrigation and agro
chemicals.
o After the Green Revolution, India’s food
production multiplied by 3.7 times while the
population multiplied by 2.55 times.
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5. o The food production has increased from
51 m tonnes in 1959-51 to 271 m tonnes
in 2016-17.
o The net result has been a 45% increased
in per person food production, which
has made India food self sufficient at
aggregate level and also a net food
exporting country.
o The strategy did not mention any direct
measure to promote farmer’s welfare.

6. “The NSSO data on Consumption
Expenditure Survey for year 2011-12
revels that more than one fifth of rural
household with self-employed in
agriculture as their principle
occupation were having income less
than the poverty line.
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National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)
comes under Ministry of Statistics and
Program Implementation (GOI).

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Bring the attention of your
audience over a key concept using
icons or illustrations
The proportion of
farm households
suffering from
poverty was
quite high in
some states. The
highest incidence
was observed in
Jharkhand where
45.3 per cent of
farm households
were under
poverty.

8. India ranks at number 2 in the world when it
comes to farm output. According to the
Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural
Household 2013, an average Indian farming
household earns just Rs 77,124 in a year,
translating to Rs 6,427 monthly, barely enough
to cover the average monthly expenditure of Rs
6,223.
Why Double
Farmers Income?
Small and marginal farmers face difficulties in
selling and marketing their produce, which is a
reason for low farm incomes.
The low level of farmers' income and year to
year fluctuations in it are a major source of
agrarian distress.

9. Past Trend in Farmer’s Income
Past estimates of farm income show a
significant difference between growth in
output and growth in farmers' income. During
2004-05 and 2011-12, agricultural output at
constant prices increased by 34 per cent while
real farm income per farmer increased by 63
per cent …

10. Source of Growth in Farmer’s Income
The NSSO 70th round survey of agricultural households
indicated that marginal farmers’ main source of income is
wages (48 per cent) and not income from crop. For small
farmers, 57 per cent of the income is coming from agriculture.
Diversification of income sources is an important strategy to
bring down distress level. Livestock and allied sector
activities are the best way to insure farmers’ incomes against
crop losses. Besides contribution of horticulture sector in
stabilising and augmenting farmers’ incomes is proven
formula.
Improvement In productivity

11. Source of Growth in Farmer’s Income
Post-Harvest Management,
Value Addition
Improvement in terms of
trade for farmer or real
prices received by farmers,
etc...
Resource use Efficiency or
saving Cost of Production
Increase in Cropping
Intensity
Diversification towards High
Value Crops

12. Related Steps Taken
by Government
2014
2019
2014-15
2019
2018
2018
2015
2018
PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana
National Livestock Mission
PM-Kisan Maandhan Yojana
PM-Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Yojana (PM-AASHA)
Crop Residue Management Scheme
PM-Mudra Yojana
Yuva Sahakar Scheme
Institutional
Reforms
PM-Jan Dhan Yojana

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• Mega Food Parks Scheme -
Launched in 2008.
To raise processing of food
items from 6% to 20%.
• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima
Yojana: To provide insurance
against crop and income loss
and to encourage investment
in farming.
• National Beekeeping Honey Mission
(NBHM), Soil Health
Card, and Prampragat Krishi Vikas
Yojana: Aiming to raise output and
reduce cost.
• Kisan Credit Card: Its objective is to
meet the
comprehensive credit requirements
of the agriculture sector and by 2019
for fisheries and animal husbandry by
giving financial support to farmers.
Participating institutions include all
commercial banks, Regional Rural
Banks, and state co-operative banks.
• Operation Greens: To address
price volatility of perishable
commodities like Tomato, Onion and
Potato (TOP).
• Mridaparikshak: Launched in
February 18, 2015.
To determines all the important
15 soil parameters.
Institutional Reforms

14. Institutional Reforms
National Food
Security
Mission
Promotion and extension of
improved technologies i.e.
Seed, Integrated Nutrient
Management including
micronutrients, Soil
amendment , IPM etc…
Kisan Call
Centers (KCC)
Kisan Call Centers
provide information to
farmers free through toll
free number 1800-180-
1551
Protection of
Plant Varieties
and Farmers’
Rights
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15. Theme: “Swasth Dhara Khet
Hara. Healthy Earth. Green Farm.
Launched: February 19th,
2015 at Suratgarh, Rajsthan
It will contains the status of his soil with
respect to 12 parameters, namely N, P, K
(Macro-nutrients); S (Secondary-nutrients);
Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, Bo (Micro-nutrients); and pH,
EC, OC (Physical parameters).
Soil Health Card

16. First ACABC established at : Vapi,
Bulsar (Distt), Gujrat by Sunil Kumar
Launched on : April, 2002
National Institute of Agricultural Extension
Management (MANAGE) will be responsible
for providing training to eligible candidates.
Agri-Clinics provides expert advice and services to far
mers on various aspects to enhance productivity of cro
ps/animals and increase the incomes of farmers.
Agri-Clinics provide support in the following areas: Soil
health. Cropping practices. ... Clinical services for anim
als, feed and fodder management.
Agri-Clinic and Agri-Business
Centers scheme (ACABC)

17. Pradhan Mantri Krishi
Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
⊷ Launched date: July 1st, 2015
⊷ PMKSY has been formulated with the vision of
extending the coverage of irrigation ‘HAR KHET KO
PANI’ and improving water use efficiency ‘MORE
CROP PER DROP’ in focused manner.
⊷ PMKSY has been approved for implementation across
the country with an outlay of Rs. 50,000 crore in five
years.
⊷ Funding: The budget of Rs. 53 billion (US $740 million)
in a time span of one year 2015-16 hah been
allocated to this scheme. The scheme has been
approved with and outlay of 50,000 crore for period
of 5 years (2015-16 to 2019-20).
⊷ Area coverage under Micro irrigation in 2019-20
• Drip : 6.27 Lakh Ha (57.98 %)
• Sprinkler : 5.55 Lakh Ha (42.02 %)
• Total : 11.82 Lakh Ha
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18. Pradhan Mantri
Kisan Samman Nidhi
(PM- KISAN)
• PM KISAN is a central Sector scheme
with 100% funding from
Government of India.
• Launched on : February 24th, 2019
• Comes in effect from December 1st,
2018
• Under the PM KISAN scheme, all
landholding farmers’ families shall be
provided financial benefit of Rs. 6000
per annum per family payable in
three equal installment of Rs. 2000
each, every four months.

19. Pradhan Mantri Kisan
SAMPADA Yojana
• Launched in : 2016
• Ministry : Ministry of Food Processing
and Industries (MoFPI)
• Fund : 6,000 crore for the period of
2016-20.
• Renamed in : 2017
• Objective : To supplement agriculture,
modernize processing and decrease Agri-
Waste.

20. The PMKSY has seven
Component schemes
• Mega Food Parks
• Integrated Cold Chain and Value
Addition Infrastructure
• Infrastructure for Agro-Processing
Clusters
• Creation of Backward and Forward
Linkages
• Creation/Expansion of Food
Processing and Preservation Capacities
• Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Infrastructure and
• Human Resources and Institutions.

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Pashu Kisan Credit Card
• Launched: December 6th 2019 in
Haryana
• The card is along lines of the Kisan
Credit Card Scheme and will a lot credit
according to the animal you own. Pashu
Kisan Credit Card may be used for
availing a loan of Rs. 44018 for a cow
and Rs. 61467 for a buffalo at any
effective rate if interest of 4%.
• The loan will be given to the livestock
owner in 6 equal installment for cow
and 7 equal installment for a buffalo
every month on the basis of financial
scale from the bank i.e. Rs. 7336/- per
month for cow and Rs. 8781/- per
month for buffalo.

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Paramparagat Krishi
Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
• The PKVY was launched in April, 2015
• The main objective was to promote
ORGANIC FARMING in the country.
• Every farmer will be provide Rs. 20,000
per acre in three years for seed to
harvesting of crops and to transport produce
to the market.
• India’s rank 8th in terms of World’s
Organic Agricultural Land and 1st in terms of
total number of producers as per 2020 data.
• India produced around 2.75 million MT
(2019-20) of certified organic products.
• Madhya Pradesh is the largest producer
followed by Maharashtra, Karnataka, UP and
Rajsthan.

23. ➢ Technological Reforms:
⊷ Launched on : April 14th , 2016
⊷ The National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading
portal which networks the existing Agricultural Produce Market Committees
(APMCs) mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.
⊷ The main objective of e-NAM is “ONE NATION ONE MARKET” for agricultural
commodities in India.
⊷ With the overall success of 585 mandis in Phase 1 and further expending its
wings to integrate 415 new mandis in Phase 2, the e-NAM platform now has a total
number of 1000 mandis across 18 States & 3 UTs.
⊷ It is for the first time that Karnataka State has been added to the list of e-NAM
States.
⊷ e-NAM Platform: Rajsthan (144) > Uttar Pradesh (125) > Gujrat (122) >
Maharashtra (188).
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Initiating e-NAM

24. Technology Mission on
Cotton
• Launched in : February 2000
• The Technology Mission on
Cotton (TMC), a Government of India
programme to improve the production,
productivity, quality, marketing
infrastructure and ginning capabilities of
Cotton.
• It aims to increase the income of the
cotton growers by reducing the cost of
cultivation as well as by increasing the
yield per hectare through proper transfer
of technology to the growers.
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25. National Mission on Sustainable
Agriculture:
⊷ It aims at promoting sustainable agriculture through a
series of adaptation measures focusing on ten key
dimensions encompassing Indian agriculture namely;
o Improved Crop Seeds,
o Livestock and Fish Cultures,
o Water Use Efficiency,
o Pest Management,
o Improved Farm Practices,
o Nutrient Management,
o Agricultural Insurance,
o Credit Support,
o Markets,
o Access to Information
o Livelihood Diversification.
⊷ In addition, schemes relating to tree plantation (Har
Medh Par Ped), Bee Keeping, Dairy and Fisheries are
also implemented.
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26. Needs and Challenges
Extension of Irrigation Facilities
The coverage of irrigation facilities
needs to be extended while
ensuring an effective water
conservation mechanism.
Land Reform
As the proportion of small and marginal
holdings is significantly large, land
reform measures like freeing up land
markets can help farmers improve their
Income.
Improve Agricultural Credit
An inclusive approach to provision for
agricultural credit has to be undertaken to
address the issue of skewness in its
regional distribution, it said.
To achieve the target of doubling farmers' income by
2022, the Economic Survey 2021 has highlighted few
basic challenges which needs to be addressed:

27. Improving Food
Processing Sector
⊶ More focussed attention" is required to
be given to the sector due to
its significant role in reducing post-
harvest losses and creation of an
additional market for farm outputs.
⊶ The food processing sector is growing
at an average annual growth rate of
more than 5% over the last six years
ending 2017-18.
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28. Farm Mechanization
There is also a need to address the issue of lower
farm mechanisation in India which is only
about 40% as compared to about 60% in
China and around 75 % in Brazil.
The major issues in Farm Mechanization Sectors
are:
• Small size and scattered land holdings.
• Financial inability of the small farmers.
• Lack of proper knowledge about farm
machineries.
• Lack of repair and replacement
facilities especially in the remote rural
areas.
• Lack of accessibility for procurement,
repair and replacement.

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Allied sectors, such as animal
husbandry, dairying and fisheries,
piggeries, need to be given a
boost to provide an assured
secondary source of employment
and income, especially for small
and marginal farmers.
Boost to Allied Sectors

30. Other Issues
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Issues such as investment in
agriculture, Insurance Coverage, Water
Conservation, Improved Yields through
Better Farming Practices, Access to Market,
Availability of Institutional Credit, Increasing
the linkages between Agricultural and Non-
agricultural Sectors need urgent attention.

31. Road Map and Action Plans
Increasing incomes
by improving
productivity
Water and Agri-
Input policies
Integrated
Farming System
Better market
price realization
Special Policy
Measures
The Net Income of farmers can
surely be doubled well within the
period of six years. A total of 40
recommendations for increasing
incomes of farmers, have been
divided into five parts, as under:

32. Agri-Infrastructure, Storage
Systems & Market Yards
Agri infrastructure, storage systems and
market yards needs to be strengthened.
More multipurpose market yard
complexes, comprised of go downs, cold
storage, farmers service centre etc. needs
to be set up for farmers to directly
participate, especially online in e-NAM.
Farmers need to be educated on the
available scheme of the Government.
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33. Revision of the APMC Act
Revision of the APMC (Agricultural Product Market
Committee) Act and monitoring its implementation in
the states. Need to amend APMC act by all the states
to encourage competitive marketing environment and
participation in NAM. Direct marketing and contract
farming should be made easy for the farmers. Also to
encourage the States for contract farming under
which the buyer can provide the farmer access to
modern technology, quality inputs, other support and
a guaranteed price.

34. Crop losses in India
• Crop losses in India are huge and estimates
range from Rs. 90,000 to Rs. 1.50 lac crores
annually. Pesticides play an important role not
only in crop productivity, cost reduction and
quality improvement but also in protecting
crops from pests and diseases.
• Crops compete against 30,000 different weeds.
They also battle more than 10,000 species of
hungry insects and 3,000 types of nematodes
as well as a broad array of diseases caused by
fungi, bacteria and viruses. All of these
enemies threaten quality and volume of
farmers’ yields.

35. Reducing Post
Harvest Losses
⊷ Reducing post harvest losses by
strengthening grain storage
infrastructure, cool chain systems for
perishables, post harvest processing
and value addition, transport,
marketing, commerce and trade. FPOs
can play an important role, provided
they are provided proper training.
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36. Farmers need to be Educated
on Water Usage Systems
Farmers however need to be educated on water
usage systems to drift them away from flood
irrigation systems, which affects productivity and
wastes water. The most important part is the crops
planning, which needs to be done keeping water
resources of a region and the water intake by
various crops in mind. For example high water
consuming crops like paddy and sugarcane should
be grown in high rainfall areas.

37. Improving Agricultural
Productivity
Improving agricultural productivity in
rain fed regions of India, which
constitutes more than 50% of the
country‘s arable land. Besides
watershed management, constructing
check dams and farm ponds should be
taken up in a mission mode for
providing life saving irrigation for the
crops.
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38. Strengthening Organic Food Program for India
to make 10% of the global 60 billion USD market
for each. Major parts of India such as North-East
Regions, HP, J&K, Uttarakhand, MP, Chhatisgarh,
Jharkhand, which are organic by default, must
be made Organic by Process for the producers to
get advantage of market value.
Promoting scientific agriculture micro-irrigation
on a very large scale. Micro irrigation along with
the nutrient application can be highly efficient
and priority should be given to empower
farmers with micro irrigation.
Promoting Organic Food Program
& Micro-Irrigation

39. Promotion of Integrated
Farming System
Promotion of Integrated farming system
approach involving synergic blending of
crops, horticulture, dairy, fisheries, poultry,
etc. seems viable option to provide regular
income and at site employment to small land
holder, decreasing cultivation cost through
multiple use of resources.

40. Fertilizer Subsidy,
Rationalizing
⊷ Fertilizer Subsidy and Rationalizing the NPK
pricing for maintaining NPK ratio in the soil and
better application technologies to improve
efficiency.
⊷ The quality of the fertilizers imported in the
Country is invariably checked by the fertilizer
quality control laboratories of the Government
of India.
⊷ The State Governments are empowered to draw
samples of the fertilizers anywhere in the
Country and take appropriate action against the
sellers of Non-Standard fertilizers.
⊷ They are also required to print 'Quality Certified'
on each bag released in the market.
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41. Dairy husbandry is a boon for small farmers, as a
family with three cows or buffaloes can earn an
annual income of Rs. 50,000 to 60,000, while
conserving our precious native breeds. With stall-
fed, high yielding animals, the dung availability will
increase by 3 to 4 times, giving a boost to biogas
and agricultural production. With introduction of
good goat husbandry practices by appointing local
youth to facilitate the activities as Field Guides, 35
million goat keepers in the country who are living
below the poverty line, can enhance their income
by four folds from Rs. 8000 to 35,000 per annum
(BAIF’s experience in Jharkhand, Odisha and
Rajasthan).
Dairy Husbandry is a Boon for
Small Farmers

42. Promotion of Intensive
Vegetable Production
o BAIF Development Research Foundation is a
charitable organization based in Urali Kanchan
near Pune in Maharashtra, India, that pioneers
agricultural development.
o It was founded in 1967 by Manibhai Desai as
the Bhartiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF).
Promotion of intensive vegetable
production by using improved varieties,
organic manure and drip irrigation, can
provide five times higher annual income, to
the tune of Rs. 2 lakh per acre (BAIF’s
experience in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and
Maharashtra).

43. “
⊷ To secure the future of agriculture and to improve the
livelihood of half of India's population,
adequate attention needs to be given to improve the
welfare of farmers and raise agricultural income.
⊷ The National Sample Survey Office’s last survey on
agricultural households was conducted in 2013. There
has been no further assessment of the farmers
income. Therefore there is an urgent need to track
the progress.
⊷ Doubling farmers income by 2022 is quite challenging
but it is needed and is attainable. Three pronged
strategy focused on:
• Development initiatives
• Technology and
• Policy reforms in agriculture is needed to double
farmers income.
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Conclusion

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Conclusion
33%
12.8%
4.4%
7.6%
Need 12.8% progress every year
The country need to increase use of quality
seed by 12.8 per cent every year.
Need 4.4% progress every year
The country need to increase fertilizer by 4.4
per cent every year.
Need 7.6% progress every year
The country need to increase power supply
to agriculture by 7.6 per cent every year.
Need 33% progress per year
The rates of increase in sources underlying
growth in output need to be accelerated by
33 per cent to meet the goal.

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Conclusion
• Area under irrigation has to be expanded by
1.78 million hectare and area under double
cropping should be increased by 1.85 million
hectare every year.
• Besides, area under fruits and vegetables is
required to increase by 5 per cent each year.
• In the case of livestock, improvement in herd
quality, better feed, increase in artificial
insemination, reduction in calving interval and
lowering age at first calving are the potential
sources of growth.

46. Thank You
“A farmer is a magician who produces
money from the mud.”
- HARSHIT MISHRA

47. References
• Doubling of Farmers’ Income by Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare
https://agricoop.nic.in/en/doubling-farmers-income
• NITI Policy Paper No.1/2017 by National Institute for Transforming India (NITI Ayog), Government of India, New Delhi
https://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/DOUBLING%20FARMERS%20INCOME.pdf
• Report on Doubling Farmer’s Income by 2022 (Farm Crisis and Farmers) by Indian Council of Food and Agriculture, India
International Centre, New Delhi
https://www.icfa.org.in/assets/doc/reports/6202513-doubling-farmers-income.pdf
• Policy paper on doubling farmers income by
https://vikaspedia.in/agriculture/policies-and-schemes/policy-paper-on-doubling-farmers-income
• Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur, Maharashtra-441108 Report on Doubling the income of farmers.
https://www.cicr.org.in/pdf/press/income-20-7-2018.pdf
• NABARD Foundation Day, Paper on Enabling Environment for Doubling Farmers Income by Gopakumaran Nair and R.N.
Kulkarni.
https://agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/12%20July%202016%20Paper%202%20GKN%20RNK%20-
enabling%20environment.pdf
• Indian Farming Special Issue on Doubling of Farmers' Income by 2022 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
https://www.icar.org.in/content/indian-farming-special-issue-doubling-farmers-income-2022-0

48. References
• Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM- KISAN)
https://pmkisan.gov.in/
• Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana
https://mofpi.nic.in/Schemes/pradhan-mantri-kisan-
sampada-yojana
• Pashu Kisan Credit Card
https://pmmodiyojana.in/pashu-kisan-credit-card/
• National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
https://www.enam.gov.in/web/
• Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
https://pgsindia-ncof.gov.in/pkvy/index.aspx
• National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture:
https://nmsa.dac.gov.in/
• Mega Food Parks Scheme
https://mofpi.nic.in/Schemes/mega-food-parks
• Agri-Clinic and Agri-Business Centers scheme (ACABC)
http://www.agriclinics.net
• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
https://pmfby.gov.in/
• Mridaparikshak
http://www.iiss.nic.in/news%20and%20event/Mri
daparikshak.pdf
• National Food Security Mission
https://www.nfsm.gov.in/
• Kisan Call Centers (KCC)
https://mkisan.gov.in/aboutkcc.aspx#:~:text=A%2
0countrywide%20common%20eleven%20digit,net
works%20including%20private%20service%20provi
ders.
• Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights
http://www.plantauthority.gov.in/
• National Bamboo Mission
https://nbm.nic.in/
• Soil Health Card
https://www.soilhealth.dac.gov.in