Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand has said that the India’s farm sector crisis is expected to deepen further in the financial year 2016-17, amid fall in the global commodities markets. He stated that 'At present, the global market is not behaving in a normal manner. As a result, the crisis in agriculture sector is deepening’.
Ramesh Chand further said that from 2005 till 2012 Indian farmers benefited from rising global food prices, but the situation has worsened in the last two years where agriculture is facing serious problems. He said that the country has seen drought and unseasonal rains and added that despite lower production the prices are not being push up. While Emphasizing the need to train farmers with additional skills in order to get jobs outside farming and existing programmes like Start Up India to tide over the agricultural crisis, Chand pitched for more private sector involvement, reforms in land lease policy and easy market access. Besides, he said that there is a need to provide some income to farmers outside agricultural sectors, while suggesting the key reforms to sustain farm growth and farmers' welfare. He also emphasized on shedding the socialist mindset and involving the private sector in all aspects of agriculture.
On the credit system, Chand said that 50 per cent of the farmers still depend on private lenders. In order to bring them into formal banking credit system, he suggested launching of a 'kisan dhan yojana' to be blend with the existing 'Jhan Dhan Yojana'.
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