At a time when agriculture growth is projected at 5 per cent for 2010-11 based on predictions of a normal monsoon, Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen says that “unless the sector delivers incomes to farmers, the growth will not be inclusive.”
“We have to plan differently from the Green Revolution Days, when the single-point agenda was to grow more food. [Now] first, agriculture must deliver food, [but] more than that, incomes or agriculture growth will not be inclusive.
“Owing to the gap between creation and dissemination of knowledge, agriculture output has not converted into income for farmers. The distance is worrying since this sector remains critical to the well-being of India,” he said while delivering the B.P. Pal memorial lecture at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) here on Thursday...................Click for more
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