India Needs Greater Focus On Farmers With Small Land Holdings : PK Mishra

India needs a greater focus on farmers with small land holdings and formulate a strategy to increase their income in order to realise the goal of a Viksit Bharat, or a developed nation by 2047. Mishra said several measures such as crop diversification, use of technology, climate-resilient crop varieties, storage to reduce post-harvest losses, direct farmer-consumer platforms, rural industrialisation and setting up of farmer producer organisations have been attempted.

He said India’s agriculture is dominated by small-holders and will continue to be so in the near future. There are 168 million operational holdings, of which small holdings of less than 2 hectares contribute to 88 per cent. In contrast, Mishra also said the concentration of small-holdings has remained very high in Asia. For a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable economic growth, it is necessary to have a higher share of income by farm households. The issue of smallholder agriculture needs to be addressed in order to realise our goal of a Viksit Bharat or a developed India by 2047.

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