Year: 2017 | Month: December | Volume 4 | Issue 2
Aquaculture for Doubling the Farmer’s income
Prem Kumar1*
Hersimranjit Kaur2 and Shiv Kumar Sharma3
DOI:10.5958/2394-8159.2017.00017.2
Abstract:
Farming community in India is highly diverse with respect to land holdings (large progressive farmers with big land holdings to small/marginal farmers with small holdings) and farming activity (crop cultivation, horticulture, floriculture, dairy, poultry, fisheries and many other allied activities). Operating small land holdings for sustainable economic benefits is becoming unviable due to many socio-economic factors and changing climate. For resource deficient small/marginal farmers, income flows are inadequate for supporting farm households. Productivity and farm income is declining and farmer community is sinking into poverty, indebtedness and distress due to uncertainties of input/output prices and markets, coupled with adverse impact of policy action and climate change. Doubling farmer’s income was initiative taken by Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi on 28 February, 2016 so that the income of farmers can be doubled by 2022. In order to enhance farmers’ income, there is a need to increase farm productivity through technological interventions, improve market access, and also to develop the industrial and service sectors to support various farmer activities in terms of marketing and processing of their produce and other requirements in terms of self-employment/employment in farming sector.
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