Lok Sabha Question No. 3209 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-08
Subject: Increase in the Income of Farmers
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Suresh Kodikunnil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3209 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 08 TH   AUGUST, 2023

## INCREASE IN THE INCOME OF FARMERS

3209.   SHRI KODIKUNNIL SURESH:

Will  the  Minister  of  AGRICULTURE  AND  FARMERS  WELFARE क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण मंũी be pleased to state:

- (a) the steps being undertaken by the Government through various projects to reach its mission of doubling farmers' income in the year when our country completes 75 years of Independence and enters Amrit Kaal;
- (b) whether the Government has been able to increase the income of farmers from the benchmark rate of 2016;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the details of increase in the average income of farmers in the country; and
- (e) whether the farmers include farm workers and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण मंũी

(SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (e):     Government had constituted an Inter-Ministerial Committee in April, 2016 to  examine issues relating to 'Doubling of Farmers Income (DFI)' and recommend strategies  to  achieve  the  same.    The  Committee  submitted  its  final  report  to  the Government  in  September,  2018  containing  the  recommendations  for  doubling  of farmers'  income through various  policies,  reforms  &  programmes.   To  achieve the objective, the Committee identified following seven sources of income growth: -
- i. Increase in crop productivity
- ii. Increase in livestock productivity
- iii. Resource use efficiency - reduction in cost of production
- iv. Increase in cropping intensity
- v. Diversification to high value agriculture
- vi. Remunerative prices on farmers' produce
- vii. Shift of surplus manpower from farm to non-farm occupations

Government has adopted and implemented several policies, reforms, developmental  programmes  and  schemes  for  achieving  higher  incomes  for  the farmers directly or indirectly. The unprecedented enhanced budgetary provisions have been made to facilitate the following efforts of the Government: -

1.  Income support to farmers through PM KISAN
2.  Pradhan Mantri Fasal BimaYojana (PMFBY)
3.  Institutional credit for agriculture sector
4.  Fixing of Minimum Support Price (MSP) at one-and-a half times the cost of production
5.  Promotion of organic farming in the country
6.  Per Drop More Crop
7.  Micro Irrigation Fund
8.  Promotion of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)
9.  National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM)
10.  Agricultural Mechanization
11.  Providing Soil Health Cards to farmers
12.  Setting up of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) extension Platform
13.  Launch of the National Mission for Edible Oils - Oil Palm
14.  Agri Infrastructure Fund (AIF)
15.  Improvement in farm produce logistics, Introduction of Kisan Rail.
16.  Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture ( MIDH) -Cluster Development Programme:
17.  Creation of a Start-up Eco system in agriculture and allied sector
18.  Achievement in Export of Agri and Allied Agri- Commodities

Implementation of these schemes has yielded remarkable results towards augmenting the income of the farmers. As part of the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav', Indian Council of Agricultural  Research  (ICAR)  has  released  a  book,  which  contains  compilation  of success stories of 75,000 farmers out of innumerable successful farmers who have increased their income more than two times.

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