PM Modi recently proposed a four-pronged strategy to achieve his government’s agrarian agenda that of doubling farmers’ income.
The prime minister recently spoke at a conference organised by the agriculture ministry to suggest ways to increase farm income.
Modi called upon the Indian Institutes of Technology for ideas in agriculture and expressed, “These really work, believe me. Their solutions have worked in other areas of governance.” He added, “Just like the entire country has pathology labs in the health sector, we could set up a network of soil-testing labs.”
He also said that the government would seriously look into suggestions that were made in the conference as well.
He further stated that his government would be allotting Rs. 80,000 crore to ensure that 99 irrigation schemes stuck for 25 to 30 years were completed within fresh deadlines and that about 50% of those would be completed by this year itself.
The Modi government had set up a committee along with Ashok Dalwai, former additional secretary in the agriculture ministry on April 13, 2016, to prepare reports on doubling farm income. The Dalwai panel showcased that real income of farmers’ need to have an annual growth rate of 10.4% for the incomes to double by 2022.
