Rural Immersion Programme: Vivekanand Research and Training
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Date
2017
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MICA
Abstract
Strategies focused on the development of agriculture sector in the past have focused primarily on raising agricultural output and ensuring food security, and may not have explicitly recognised the need to raise farmers’ income. These strategies, including: a) technology enabled i.e. quality seed, fertiliser, irrigation and agrochemicals, b) incentive enabled i.e. remunerative prices for crops and subsidies, c) public investments and d) facilitating institutions, have paid dividends in addressing food shortage in the past decades. India’s food production has multiplied by 3.7 times in the past 50 years (1965 – 2015), since the adoption of green revolution. While the growth in output has led to overall increase in
farmers’ income, the rate of such an increase has been low. The NSSO data on Consumption Expenditure Survey for 2011-12 reveals that more than a fifth of rural households with self-employment in
agriculture as their principal occupation had their income below the poverty line. Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for majority of India’s population, and hence policy, market and technology interventions are the need of hour to ensure prosperity for the largest section of India’s population.
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Rural Immersion Project – Area: Kachchh, District: Kachchh, State: Gujarat
Keywords
Rural development & problems, study by students