Crop Husbandry, Agriculture Inputs, Demand and Supply report released by NITI Aayog

Posted 04 Mar 2024

Updated 27 Mar 2024

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Key highlights
- Positives of Agriculture:
  - Domestic production sufficiently meets the demand for most food commodities, except edible oils and pulses.
  - Agricultural exports have been rising steadily, and the export basket is also changing.
    - India, with a share of 40% in global rice (Semi-milled) exports, is the largest exporter.
- Major Challenges:
  - Land and water resources will further shrink in future on account of their competing demand for domestic, energy and industrial uses.
  - Food production system will also come under a confluence of several biotic and abiotic pressures, including climate change and infestation of insect pests and diseases, etc.
  - Deceleration in the growth of oilseeds production on account of the stagnation in their area.
    - India imports about 60% of its edible oil demand.

Recommendations
- Land use planning i.e evolving economically feasible cropping patterns suited to the resource endowments of different agro-ecological zones.
- Limit open-ended procurement of rice and wheat as it acts as a disincentive for diversification.
  - Compensate farmers for additional surplus through a price deficiency scheme.
- Promote millet consumption and production.
- Other recommendations: Enhance pulses production,Establish seed hub, promote climate-resilient technologies and practices, etc.

Crop Diversification Programme (CDP), a sub-scheme of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) to divert the area of water intensive paddy crop to alternative crops.
The state can promote crop diversification under RKVY with the approval of State Level Sanctioning Committee.
National Food Security Mission (NFSM): The government of India supplements the efforts of state governments to encourage diversified production of crops

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