EXPERTS URGE THE GOVERMENT TO LINK INDIAN AGRICULTURE WITH VALUE CHAINS...
On the sidelines of Centre for Policy Research Dialogues 2020, experts urged the Modi govt to take comprehensive reforms in the sector. Multiple agriculture experts urged the Narendra Modi government to undertake comprehensive reforms in the sector, from the production side right up to the supply-end. Speaking on the sidelines of Centre for Policy Research Dialogues 2020 in New Delhi Monday, the experts also stressed the importance of linking Indian agriculture with global value chains (GVC). Saurabh Garg, principal secretary, department of agriculture & farmers empowerment, Odisha, highlighted the importance of linking Indian farmlands with various agri-linkages including GVC. “In India, we only talk of GVC in the manufacturing sector but not in agriculture sector. Even the input from agriculture processing in the form of food processing is still not accounted as agricultural GDP,” said Garg, adding that Odisha doubled the income of farmers in the state between 2003 and 2...