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Doubling Farmers’ Income: KISAN–MITrA, Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scalingup: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for Transforming Agriculture)

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Title Doubling Farmers’ Income: KISAN–MITrA, Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scalingup: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for
Transforming Agriculture)
 
Creator Wani, S P
Jakkula, V S
Singh, D
 
Subject Food Production
Smallholder Farmers
Millets
Semi-arid tropics
Sustainable Agriculture
Smallholder Agriculture
Drylands Agriculture
Watershed Management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Climate Change
Food Security
Indian Agriculture
India
Agricultural Economics
 
Description India holds 142 million hectares of arable land in 137 million farm households and has 46 of the 60 soil
types in the world with 15 agro climatic zones varying from arid to humid tropics, hot arid deserts to
cold deserts with varying annual rainfall 11,873 mm at Mawsynram, Meghalaya to 166 mm at Jaisalmer,
Rajasthan. It is the largest producer of spices, pulses, milk, tea, cashew and jute; and the second largest
producer of wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables, sugarcane, cotton and oilseeds.
Inspite of these remarkable figures, agriculture contributes to only 17% to the national gross domestic
product value by 56 per cent of population engaged in farming. The stagnated growth rate of 3.1 % and
food security for the ever-growing population in India along with poverty amongst rural population
has always been a challenging task. In order to tackle this situation, a total of 60 selected participants
representing Department of Agriculture, Government of India, national research institutions, state
agricultural universities, corporates, international research centres and NGO groups brainstormed on the
topic of doubling farmers’ income by the year 2022 as envisioned by Hon. Prime Minister of India Shri
Narendra Modi...
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2017
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10339/1/Kisan%20Mitra.pdf
Wani, S P and Jakkula, V S and Singh, D (2017) Doubling Farmers’ Income: KISAN–MITrA, Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scalingup: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for Transforming Agriculture). Monograph. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad.