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Doubling Farmers' Income:A Model for Hilly and Mountainous Region


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The growth and development of agricultural sector has a strong linkage with other sectors and a striking effect on poverty and unemployment alleviation problems. Agricultural household activities comprise of crop sector (field crops and horticulture), livestock sector (dairy, poultry, piggery, small ruminants), farm linked activities (mushroom, beekeeping, sericulture) and post production activities (offfarm enterprises). This paper explores the avenues and possibility of doubling farmers' income by 2022 in the state of Himachal Pradesh as envisioned by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. Obviously the objective of doubling the income can be achieved through all round development of farm, off-farm and non-farm avenues in the rural areas. The paper highlights these options through use of technology to increase the productivity of crops in a sustainable way, giving due emphasis to ancillary enterprises, agro-processing and institutional/market support with the concept of maximum sale price than minimum support price. The income potential of different activities/enterprises has been estimated along with strategies to harness the potential.

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Doubling Farmers' Income, Cropping Systems, Ancillary Enterprises, Value Addition, Cost and Net Returns, Remunerative Pricing, Action Plan.
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Ashok Kumar Sarial
CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, India

Abstract


The growth and development of agricultural sector has a strong linkage with other sectors and a striking effect on poverty and unemployment alleviation problems. Agricultural household activities comprise of crop sector (field crops and horticulture), livestock sector (dairy, poultry, piggery, small ruminants), farm linked activities (mushroom, beekeeping, sericulture) and post production activities (offfarm enterprises). This paper explores the avenues and possibility of doubling farmers' income by 2022 in the state of Himachal Pradesh as envisioned by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. Obviously the objective of doubling the income can be achieved through all round development of farm, off-farm and non-farm avenues in the rural areas. The paper highlights these options through use of technology to increase the productivity of crops in a sustainable way, giving due emphasis to ancillary enterprises, agro-processing and institutional/market support with the concept of maximum sale price than minimum support price. The income potential of different activities/enterprises has been estimated along with strategies to harness the potential.

Keywords


Doubling Farmers' Income, Cropping Systems, Ancillary Enterprises, Value Addition, Cost and Net Returns, Remunerative Pricing, Action Plan.

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