Lok Sabha Question No. 460 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-05
Subject: Doubling of Farmers Income
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Deepak (Dev) Adhikari, Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, Y. S. Avinash Reddy

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.460

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 5 TH  DECEMBER, 2023

## DOUBLING OF FARMERS INCOME

460. SHRI ADHIKARI DEEPAK (DEV): SHRI RAJIV RANJAN SINGH ALIAS LALAN SINGH: SHRI Y.S. AVINASH REDDY:

Will  the  Minister  of  AGRICULTURE  AND  FARMERS  WELFARE क ृ षि एवं षकसान कल्याण मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  achieved  the  target  of  doubling  the  income  of farmers;
- (b)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  points  based  on  which  the  said  inference  is derived and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c)  the  details  of  increase  in  the  income  of  farmers,  farm  produce-wise  and  Statewise; and
- (d) the details of the steps being taken by the Government to achieve the said target in future?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

क ृ षि एवं षकसान कल्याण मंत्री

(SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a)  to  (d):          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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