BS Agri Round Table: GST, note ban helped trace agriculture income flow

Investments are soon going to flow in agriculture, says Agricultural Secretary S.K Pattnayak

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s target of doubling farmers’ income in six years is achievable, provided farm policies and practices are modified, according to senior government officials and agriculture experts.
 
Speaking at the Business Standard Agriculture Round Table, 2017, Agriculture Secretary S K Pattanayak said on Tuesday that 55 per cent of farmland was dependent on the monsoon and that the strategy to double the farmers’ income had to be different here compared to the land that was irrigated well.
 
Quoting a study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), he said irrigation alone could improve farm productivity by