In order to double farmer's income, the Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI) president Rajju Shroff has said that India needs to push its agricultural exports to $120 billion by the year 2022 from the present $36 billion. Globally, the country ranks second in agriculture production but it ranks eighth in exports, well behind Thailand and Indonesia. Besides, he stated that they have urged the government to increase focus on trebling India's share in agriculture exports to double farmer’s income by 2022.
Shroff has said that over the past few months, they have appealed to the agriculture ministry, commerce ministry and institutions like APEDA, NITI Aayog to arrest the steady decline in India's agriculture exports and the sharp increase in imports. He also said that domestic agricultural commodities face stiff non-tariff barriers in many developed countries that either refuse or restrict their agriculture exports. He also wrote off farm loans and increasing Minimum Support Prices (MSP) as not sustainable.
CCFI president further said that they urgently need to create a single authority to monitor agricultural exports and imports keeping a hawk eye on both. Currently, they have multiple authorities with poor co-ordination and dismal results. He pointed out that foreign-funded environmental activists pose the single biggest threat to the progress of Indian agriculture. He added that a spurt in India's agricultural exports can boost rural employment, income and purchasing power. That apart, he believes that it will also spruce up allied activities in storage, transportation and processing.
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