Consensual contract farming law could transform farmers' life: CII

Interview with chairman, CII Committee on Agriculture

B Thiagarajan, joint managing director at Blue Star and chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry's national committee on state-level coordination in agriculture, extolls the benefit to farmers and the rural economy from contract farming. Edited excerpts of talk with Kunal Bose:

Do you see in the 2017-18 Union Budget a promise of a sustainable four per cent or more annual growth rate for farm production?

For the first time, a finance minister has made an attempt to identify all the areas requiring government policy intervention for the farm sector to be put on a high growth trajectory. In framing