Development of the agriculture sector in India focused primarily on raising agricultural output and improving food security. On the contrary, farmers’ income also remained low in relation to income of those working in non-farm sector. During early 1980, farm income per cultivator was just 34% of income of a non-agricultural worker. The potentiality of high value crops (HVC) to double farmers’ income over the cultivation of staple crops can clearly be understood with a statistical comparison. A number of schemes have been promoted by Govt. of India during the last years. Science that optimizes on the inputs, helps to reduce costs, makes the production more competitive and mitigates any inflationary pressure should be undertaken.
Debmala Mukherjee
Dept. of Vegetable Science, Faculty of Horticulture, BCKV, Nadia, West Bengal (741 252), India
Tridip Bhattacharjee*
College of Agriculture, Tripura, Lembucherra, Tripura (799 210), India
Subhrajyoti Chatterjee
P.K. Maurya
S. Banarjee
Thingreingam Irenaeus K.S.
Arup Chattopadhyay
Mukherjee, D., Bhattacharjee, T., Chatterjee, S., Maurya, P.K., Banarjee, S., Irenaeus, K.S.T., Chattopadhyay, A., 2020. Doubling farmers income by 2022: Perspective. Biotica Research Today 2(3), 34-35.
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