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What is the News?
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) has released a book titled Indian Agriculture towards 2030: Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems.
What is the “Indian Agriculture towards 2030” Book?
Released by: NITI Aayog and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Purpose of this book: The book captures the outcomes of the deliberative process of national dialogue by NITI Aayog and the Ministries of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and facilitated by FAO since 2019.
Themes: The book covers the following themes:
— Transforming Indian Agriculture
— Structural Reforms and Governance
— Dietary Diversity, Nutrition and Food Safety
— Managing Climate Risks in Agriculture
— Science, Technology and Innovation
— Symbiosis of Water and Agricultural Transformation in India
— Pests, Pandemics, Preparedness and Biosecurity
— Transformative Agroecology-Based Alternatives for a Sustainable and Biodiverse Future.
What is the significance of this book?
Indian agriculture is typically identified with the ‘Green Revolution’ that started in the 1960s, enabling the nation to make great strides in domestic food production and significantly contributing to progress in agriculture and allied sectors. It transformed India from a food-deficit nation to a food-surplus, export-oriented country.
However, now the country is facing second-generation problems, especially related to sustainability, nutrition, the adoption of new agricultural technologies and, perhaps most importantly, income levels of the population dependent on farming.
This book discusses the solutions to these challenges and aims to complement the efforts of the Government of India in designing a post-Green Revolution future for the country.
Source: This post is based on an article “NITI Aayog and FAO Launch Book Titled Indian Agriculture towards 2030” published in PIB on 28th March 2022.
