Map water health of farms, says farmer income panel

The official committee to recommend on the aim of doubling of farmer incomes in five years has said the soil health card scheme should be extended to the water health of farms. And, to link this with fertiliser management systems.

The panel has issued released two new volumes of an intended 14-volume report. Six of these have been issued till date; the rest are being prepared.

The two latest ones focus on sustainability in agriculture and extension services. In the earlier ones, the committee had estimated the average real income of a farmer household could rise to Rs 219,724 by 2022-23 from