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Budget should frame policy to promote R&D in agriculture: Ankur Aggarwal

It should enable Indian agrochemical firms to get faster registration for their products

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Ankur Aggarwal, MD, Crystal Crop Protection

4 min read Last Updated : Apr 12 2019 | 3:43 PM IST

Ever since the Modi government came to power in 2014, agriculture has been one of its key focus areas. It ought to be considering the fact that 60 percent of the country’s population is dependent on farming and allied sectors for livelihood.

Coming soon after the demonetisation exercise that invariably impacted all sectors of the country’s economy including agriculture, the union budget 2017 has raised expectations of favourable and scalable policies that can provide the much needed healing balm for the agriculture sector. While overall agricultural output this fiscal was expected to grow at 4 percent this fiscal, demonetisation is

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