minimum dietary energy norm for urban and rural areas to 1,800 calories and they have not included many other factors like – what is happening to proteins, minerals and micro-nutrients.
Significant decrease in agricultural output
The statistics reveal that by 2022, India’ s human resources requirement in agriculture will reduce significantly due to shrinking agricultural land and the rapid movement of farmers per cent growth agriculture growth in 2016-17, if monsoon turns out to be normal.” Prof Chand also revealed that during 2014-15, agriculture registered a negative growth of-0.25 per cent while in 2015-16 it was 1.2 per cent.
Although there can be no quick fix solutions, the government is expected to take strong measures to boost rural economy.
Timely remedies and joint efforts required achieve food security we need to deal with the twin issues of affordability and availability. This means we need to have the right solutions for resource efficiency and the right production strategy for key crops. Through the Good Growth Plan, we want to contribute to India’ s food security and help farmers meet agricultural challenges in a sustainable way. In order to make a measurable contribution by 2020, we have set ourselves specific targets related to
WHY ARE MARGINAL FARMERS AILING?
• No timely access to right technology
• Lack of knowledge on multi-speciality agriculture
• Absence of information on soil fertility
• No incentives on electrical pumps for irrigation
• Lack of fair price regime and any direct purchasing outlet No parallel source of
• livelihood from rural to urban areas.
And the future too doesn’ t look so bright. As per Prof Ramesh Chand,“ Since last two years have not been good, we have a very low base, so we can expect about six
The agriculture biotechnology giant, Syngenta has come up with what it calls, a Good Growth Plan. Explaining it, Mr Bipin Solanki, Territory Head, Syngenta-South Asia mentioned“ In order to improving resource efficiency, rejuvenating ecosystems and revitalizing rural communities.”
“ With India estimated to add half a billion people by 2050, farmers will have to grow crops more
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