What It Meant to Double the Farmers Income - Going by Madhya Pradesh State’s Success Story

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  • A.V. Sekhar, C. Nivetha

Abstract

The paper, through the recorded observations made, enables the reader to know the fundamental steps taken by the state of Madhya Pradesh in achieving 100% increase in the Farmers Income which is visible from the statistics for the year 2014-15 onwards.  It has thus experienced and exhibited a clear possibility of the achievement.  There are a number of major and minor factors that were identified, discussed, planned, programmed and executed by the state administration to make the initiative a success.  The whole initiative has involved a cross section of experts from different areas within the field of Agriculture - Administrators, Researchers, policy makers and those representing various farming and non-farming activities that the farmers have the access to.  The benchmarking performance of attaining the abnormal increase in income of farmers that Madhya Pradesh could turn out at the state level has not only been on account of a general aspiration, but also the states deep sentiment for the farmers in the state, whose earnings were quite low for years.  The decision taken now to replicate the performance at the National level also is mainly to end the sad saga of hand-to-mouth incomes earned by the farmers, who actually get down into the fields and toil, day after day, throughout the season with expectations on incomes, commensurate with their objectives, dedication and the labour that they put forth.   The resounding success that the state of MP achieved had set the tone for making it a National level goal too.  The conclusive statement and the supportive information here-in the paper, would be a set of clear cut objective based achievements of the state which formed a clear agenda for implementation at the National level of farming sector.  The Central Governments policy objective of doubling of the farmers income at the national level, which was drafted in the year 2017, considering the factors that brought resounding success to the Madhya Pradesh State, is now a work-in-progress at the national level, and the initial targeted year for completion of the project is pushed now to Yr-2024 as against the year Yr-2022 fixed earlier.  For Madhya Pradesh state it would now be an extended effort adopting certain factors which were not there in their agenda that pushed up their state level agriculture outputs in the pre-2017 period.

Methodology:

The paper is a reflection of study and observations in the field of agriculture and the success that the Madhya Pradesh state could achieve.  It is about the planned effort that was undertaken by the state of Madhya Pradesh to look into various essential steps to be taken to attain the phenomenal success in increasing the agricultural output.  The policies, plans, procedures and the connected activities that were major and minor were brought into the paper supporting through the connected statistics, recording the results achieved thereof.  So the method adopted for this study was to identify, select, study and make note of the essential steps, their implementation and the results attained by the state of Madhya Pradesh, sourced from the already published information.

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Published

2020-12-30

How to Cite

A.V. Sekhar, C. Nivetha. (2020). International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 9(3), 1920 - 1928. Retrieved from https://modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/377

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