Indian agriculture sector faces issues in implementation of policy reforms: NITI Aayog member

06 Feb 2020 Evaluate

Expressing concern over problems facing by the Indian agriculture sector, NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand has said that this sector is facing issues in making available customised technology to farmers and implementation of policy reforms, especially at the state level. He also emphasised the need to implement model central laws on Agriculture Produce and Livestock Marketing, land leasing and contract farming at the state level.

He also said that the states should be encouraged to play an active role in the overall growth of the agriculture sector and emphasized on the need for private sector to come forward. He said ‘We need to give the right role to right people and institutions. Market and the private people are the right people to pay competitive prices to farmers and we should remove hurdles which come in the way of the market.’

Chand added that for the first time the 15th Finance Commission has included a provision to give performance linked grants to states to undertake some agricultural reform. He further said that agriculture sector is witnessing the growth but with an increase in cost of production and it is one of the reasons why India is losing on export competitiveness.

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