Business Standard

Budget wishlist: Here are the key challenges in agriculture sector

Government needs to play a proactive role in enabling a business-as-a-service (BaaS) platform to promote innovation

agriculture
Premium

Despite increased agricultural growth, only 30% of farmers borrow from formal sources, while 50% seek financing from other sources

BS Reporter
Indian agriculture has shown unusually high resilience during pandemic years. Despite supply chain disruption, labour migration, and market uncertainty, it has been top-performing sector in one of the toughest times for the Indian economy. Upstream start-ups, which include farm-linked and supply chain-linked ventures, continue to see an acceleration of investor interest.




















What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in