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| Document Date:
| 2004/07/30 |
| Document Type:
| Board Report |
| Report Number:
| 27889 |
| Volume No:
| 1 of 1 |
| Country:
| India ; |
| Doc Name:
| India - Re-energizing the Agricultural Sector to Sustain Growth and Reduce Poverty |
| Keywords:
| access to credit,Agricultural Growth,Agricultural Households,agricultural inputs,agricultural intensification,Agricultural Marketing,agricultural policies,agricultural productivity,agricultural products,Agricultural Research,Agricultural Research Systems,agricultural subsidies,Agricultural Technologies,Agriculture,Average Yields,Canal Irrigation,Capita Consumption,Capital Formation,cereals,coarse grains,Commodities,Commodity,contract farming,Crop,crop agriculture,crop diversification,crop research,Cropping,Crops,debt,deregulation,drinking water,Employment,environmental conservation,Extension,Extension Services,Farm,Farm Income,farm incomes,Farmers,farming,Fertilizer,fertilizer,Fertilizer Subsidies,fisheries,food prices,food safety,food security,Foodgrains,Government Expenditures,Grain,Grain Consumption,grain storage,Grant Programs,groundnuts,Groundwater,Horticulture,imports,Income,incomes,Infant mortality,Informal Sector,Insurance,intellectual property rights,Irrigation,irrigation,Labor Productivity,land degradation,Life expectancy,livestock,logging,Maize,malnutrition,marginal farmers,market prices,Meat,Nash,oil,oilseeds,paddy,participatory approaches,Policy Environment,political economy,poverty line,poverty reduction,price subsidies,Private consumption,Private Sector,Produce,Producers,production costs,production systems,Productivity,productivity growth,property rights,Public Agricultural Research,Public Expenditures,pulses,quotas,rapeseed,Resources Management,Rice,rice mills,Rice Procurement,rice production,Rural Development,rural infrastructure,Rural Poverty,soybeans,sugar,Sugarcane,urbanization,wages,water logging,Water Resources,Water Resources Management,Wheat. Agricultural sector issues; Crop management; Agricultural growth; Public expenditure; Public investment; Rural sector; Imports; Exports; Commodity pricing; Fertilizer; Water resource regulations; Irrigation development; Power supply; Land policy; Agricultural research extension linkages; Agricultural marketing; Trade regulations; Wheat; Rice; Households; Foodgrain management; Policy reform Show More |
| Language:
| English |
| Major Sector:
| Public Administration, Law, and Justice ; Agriculture, fishing, and forestry |
| Rel. Proj ID:
| IN-India Agricultural Policy Workshop -- P085570 ; |
| Region:
| South Asia ; |
| Rep Title:
| India - Re-energizing the Agricultural Sector to Sustain Growth and Reduce Poverty |
| Sector:
| General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector ; General public administration sector |
| Topics:
| Agriculture ; Environment ; Health, Nutrition and Population |
| SubTopics:
| Environmental Economics & Policies ; Agricultural Research ; Crops & Crop Management Systems ; Health Economics & Finance ; Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems |
| TF No/Name:
| TF051479-UK-DFID AND WORLD BANK PARTNERSHIP FOR INDIA - SASRD |
| Unit Owning:
| Agriculture & Rural Development (SASDA) |
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Abstract
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| Agriculture in India will remain the mainstay for a large share of the rural population in the next decade, many of which also comprise the rural poor. Promoting more rapid agricultural growth, particularly achieving the government goal of 4 percent growth per year not only exclusively during the 10th plan period but for the medium to longer term, will be extremely crucial not only to achieving strong economic performance for the country as a whole, but also in lifting large numbers of agricultural households above poverty. The reform agenda puts in the spotlight the difficult challenge of balancing short vs. longer term policies and expenditure priorities to achieve targets. The current subsidy-dominated agricultural environment is helping to keep farming many crops viable and even highly lucrative, especially food grain crops in traditional procurement states. But in distorting farmer incentives, it is eroding rapidly the basic foundation for agriculture (i.e. that is, land and water resources), threatening the longer-term viability of agricultural production, and thus would also diminish future growth prospects and risk increasing rural poverty in many of these areas. Action to regain a better balance between short and longer-term policy and expenditure priorities to ensure sustainable poverty reducing agricultural growth can no longer be postponed. |
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