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Non-farm activities need a big push to boost rural incomes, say experts

Incomes from crop production have dropped while wages have become the mainstay for rural households, experts say

In interviews officials outlined the scale of the carnage from entire families wiped out to bloated bodies floating down the Ganges River to farmland left untended due to a lack of workers.

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According to an earlier report in this paper, the latest survey showed farming had taken the backseat in rural India at aggregate level.

Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Sep 15 2021 | 11:32 PM IST

Doubling farmers’ income by 2022 it now appears will not be a snap, with reduced earnings from crop production amid increased debts, as shown by the latest findings of the National Sample Survey (NSS).

This has highlighted the need for a strong policy response to reverse the trend.

Incomes from crop production have dropped while wages have become the mainstay for rural households, experts say.

This trend was seen in the last NSS of 2013, followed by the Financial Inclusion Survey of 2015-16 (of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and now the current one. This calls for

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