GST helping track farm income flow: Agri Secy S K Pattanayak

Speaking at the Business Standard Agriculture Round Table 2017, Pattanayak said that agriculture was no more about traditional crops

Union Agriculture Secretary S K Pattanayak on Tuesday said the introduction of the goods and service tax (GST), coupled with digitalisation, has helped in knowing how agriculture income flows and to whom.

"All these days we did not know how agriculture business is transacted. (With) GST, coupled with digitalisation, we will know who is earning," Pattanayak said at the inauguration of the Business Standard Agriculture Round Table 2017. His comments came after the Union Cabinet, earlier in the day, cleared the raising of the minimum support price (MSP) for the rabi crop, which would be harvested in winter. The MSP