Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Parshottam Rupala said the govt has constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of Additional Secretary with a view to doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
Rupala was speaking in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. He said five meetings have already taken place so far towards this end.
The Committee is first trying to study the current income level of farmers and would thereafter determine the needed growth rate to double their income by the year 2021-22.
The Committee would recommend strategies to be adopted to accomplish this goal.
Rupala informed the House that an institutional mechanism to review and monitor implementation to realize the goal would also be put in place.