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Mission India for Transforming Agriculture (MITrA),Research Report IDC-4

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Title Mission India for Transforming Agriculture (MITrA),Research Report IDC-4
 
Creator Wani, S P
Bergvinson, D
Raju, K V
Gaur, P M
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Indian Agriculture
 
Description Humankind’s biggest challenge in the 21st century is to ensure food and nutritional security for the growing
population and improved livelihoods for smallholder farmers. World population is estimated to swell to
9.3 billion by 2050. India has to feed 1.4 billion people by 2025 and water demand for food production will
increase dramatically. This challenge becomes increasingly acute in light of the depleting water resources (5177 m3 in 1951 to 1545 m3 in 2011), degrading land and increasingly variable weather associated with
climate change. The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India has taken a novel
initiative to transform agriculture in India as part of the Digital India program by transforming the rural
economy and creating skilled jobs in rural areas. The Government of India has initiated various innovative
schemes to enhance food production and to mitigate impacts of climate change.
At the request of the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India, to prepare a long-term strategy to
increase economic opportunities for rural families in India, the International Crops Research Institute
for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)1 has prepared a set of six strategy papers: 1) Pulses2 2) PMKSY3) Soil
Mapping4) Agri Markets5) Crop Insurance6 and 6) Digital Agriculture. The draft versions, based on the PMO
request, were discussed with the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India7 and its
senior officers made detailed suggestions to refine and strengthen these papers. This summary, elaborated
in the following sections and the set of strategy papers, attached separately, incorporate the suggestions
made by the Ministry officials and other leading sector-specialists from India.
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2016
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9745/1/Mission%20India%20for%20Transforming%20Agriculture%20%28MITrA%29.pdf
Wani, S P and Bergvinson, D and Raju, K V and Gaur, P M and Varshney, R K (2016) Mission India for Transforming Agriculture (MITrA),Research Report IDC-4. Technical Report. ICRISAT, Patancheru.