Budget 2023-24 wishlist: Here're the key challenges in agriculture sector

With an aggregate sectoral value in excess of $450 billion, agriculture has continued to play an important role in fostering livelihoods and ensuring food and nutritional security in India.

The emerging trends in Indian agribusiness point at the shift in focus from a production-driven sector to market-driven factors. 

While the agriculture growth and diversification story has been a result of a right mix of policy and processes pushed over a period of time, there a few bottlenecks which call for attention.

Industry ask

• Activating the adoption of next-gen agri-tech
• More focus to ease investments  through ease of doing agri-business 
• Supply