Worked in mission mode to double farm income by 2022: Radha Mohan Singh

A big reason for farmers' loss of interest in agriculture, said Singh, was previous governments' failure to address critical issues related to farming

Just days before the interim Budget for 2019, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Thursday said the NDA government was looking at newer ways to boost farmers’ income and, in the past more than four years, changed the focus of policies from being production-centric to income-centric. 

Addressing the Business Standard Round Table, Singh said the government was looking at options through which the difference between the minimum support price (MSP) and the market price of a crop could be transferred into the bank accounts of farmers.

Coming down heavily on the UPA government, Singh said before 2014, there were many