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Unfolding government policies towards the development of climate smart agriculture in India

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Title Unfolding government policies towards the development of climate smart agriculture in India
 
Creator Kishore, Avinash
Deb Pal, Barun
Joshi, Kuhu
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
 
Subject food security
agriculture
climate change
 
Description The main aim of this paper is to map agricultural policies and programmes, with components of
climate smart agriculture, implemented by the Government of India (GoI). Although climate resilience is
not the explicit goal of these, our analysis shows that the GoI has been spending 15% of the total expenditure
for agriculture towards enhancing resilience on agriculture to climate change. This expenditure has been
made through micro-irrigation, watershed development and conservation agriculture under National Food
Security Mission (NFSM), National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), National Horticulture
Mission (NHM), Rasthrya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), crop insurance, neem coated urea, and weather
advisory systems. Moreover, the government of India is committed to invest Rs 838 billion towards
development of climate smart agriculture in the coming five years. We can argue that the increase in
public expenditure will also attract significant additional investments from farmers, private sectors and
state governments. This large resource commitment by the central and state governments and the farmers
of India will have a greater impact on agrarian economy and environment only if there is a greater
convergence among different programmes and more farmers’ participation in these
 
Date 2018-12-05
2019-06-04T14:32:07Z
2019-06-04T14:32:07Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Kishore A, Pal BD, Joshi K, Aggarwal P. 2018. Unfolding government policies towards the development of climate smart agriculture in India. Agricultural Economics Research Review 31:123-137.
0974-0279
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101466
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll5/id/6477
https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-0279.2018.00028.9
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Limited Access
 
Format p. 123-137
 
Publisher Diva Enterprises Private Limited
 
Source Agricultural Economics Research Review