Agriculture

Aatmanirbhar Bhaarat
Stuti Sharma
10-F
  “It is time for India to realize the fact that twenty first
century is truly India’s century, as has been said for years
by several people. A rise of New India is essential not
just for India but for the world, and this can come
through only when we can build up a self-reliant
nation.”said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Introduction Within a couple of days the Finance Ministry started to
announce a meticulous, detailed plan on how they intend
to create a self-reliant India. The roadmap, put out over
five days, identified several sectors that would be guided,
assisted and nurtured with the right support system to
transform this vision into reality

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Past situation of agriculture GDP and farmers

• In the three decades from the 1970s until the late 90s,
India’s agricultural GDP grew from $ 25 billion to $ 101
billion registering an absolute growth of $ 76 billion.
However, in the next 14 years from 2000 to 2014, it
leaped from $ 101 billion to $ 367 billion, registering an
astonishing growth of $ 266 billion. In other words, the
growth in agriculture in the last 14 years was 350
percent higher than the one achieved in the previous 30
years.
• But the farmers of our country on the other hand have
been facing poverty since they could only sell to specific
buyers but not to the buyers of their choice. . Over the
years cartels of middlemen created a cycle of buying for
very low prices from farmers while selling at much
higher prices to consumers, thus earning more money,
while both farmers and consumers faced loses.

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Countering this issue
•However the new announcement changed this situation
amending the Essential Commodities Act . Enabling better
price realization for farmers, attracting investments and
make agriculture competitive, thus becoming a key
contributor to the promise of doubling farmer incomes. In
all farmers can now sell anywhere as per their own will
•Further, the boost given to investment in farm-gate
infrastructure and food processing industry creates newer
avenues of growth, jobs and entrepreneurship at a large
scale, while inter-state trade creates the win-win situation
through a better price discovery both for the farmer and
the consumer. 
•Moreover the government has also announced that it will
finalise a facilitative legal framework to enable farmers to
engage with processors, aggregators, large retailers,
exporters and corporates in a fair and transparent
manner. 
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 Key features:
 PMMSY is a scheme to bring about Blue
Revolution through sustainable and
responsible development of fisheries
sector in India under two components
namely, Central Sector Scheme (CS) and
Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS).
 The Scheme will be implemented during
a period of 5 years from FY 2020-21 to PM Matsya Sampada Yojana
FY 2024-25. (PMMSY)
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Fisheries,
Animal Husbandry and Dairying is a big moment for India’s fisheries sector, as it sits on
the cusp of a Blue Revolution. Providing ban period
support to fishermen, personal and boat insurance help
address important issues that have limited growth of
fisheries in India for long now.

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 •There were Rs. 2 lakh crore concessional credit enabled
through the Kisan Credit Card alongside the Rs.30,000
crore fund to provide additional emergency working
capital to farmers via the NABARD network addressing
a big issue that has worried farmers.
•Moreover, there was Rs. 1 lakh crore allocation for

Loans and Funds strengthening farm to gate infrastructure, and the Rs.
15,000 crore fund for developing dairy infrastructure
which will help the dairy sector allied activity and
address important gaps in the sector.

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