{"id":30475,"date":"2018-10-26T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30475"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:53:31","slug":"move-out-move-up-approach-could-ease-indias-farm-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/move-out-move-up-approach-could-ease-indias-farm-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Move out, move up approach could ease India\u2019s farm crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/move-out-move-up-approach-could-ease-indias-farm-crisis\/article23306789.ece\"><strong>\u2018Move out, move up approach could ease India\u2019s farm crisis\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>View of the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of release of annual global food policy report<\/p>\n<p><strong>Views<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian must adopt policies that facilitate sections of farmers to \u2018move out\u2019 of rural areas to urban areas and the remaining ones to \u2018move up\u2019 in the farming sector to tackle the current agrarian crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Move out, move up approach<\/strong>: For India, some farmers have to move to cities and urban centres. Those who stay behind will be able to increase the holding and move to producing high value food that will create new opportunities. That is the \u2018move out, move up\u2019 approach<\/li>\n<li>Non-farm opportunities in rural areas must also increase if farmers have to come out of poverty. Higher the non-farm income, the lower the poverty rate<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non-farm opportunities<\/strong>: food processing, input supplies, trade and marketing, making construction materials for urban centres etc. are non-farm opportunities that are possible in rural areas, where farmers can work part-time or seasonally<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inadequate linkages<\/strong>: India has been investing in rural and urban projects separately, but investment in the linkage between urban and rural economy is inadequate<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shift of demand<\/strong>: As urban people get prosperous they will demand better, more nutritious food in the future. This would encourage agriculture that is now grain focused, to shift to vegetables, fruits, good dairy products and meat<\/li>\n<li><strong>More investment in R&amp;D<\/strong>: Indian agriculture scientists must work hard to develop and own new technologies. The country should own them rather than multinationals, so that Indian farmers will benefit. India should invest more in this research<\/li>\n<li>Anti-globalism could be detrimental to food security and countries such as India and China must continue to argue for \u201cfree and fair trade\u201d and the free movement of people around the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Move out, move up approach could ease India\u2019s farm crisis\u2019 Context View of the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of release of annual global food policy report Views Indian must adopt policies that facilitate sections of farmers to \u2018move out\u2019 of rural areas to urban areas and the remaining ones&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/move-out-move-up-approach-could-ease-indias-farm-crisis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Move out, move up approach could ease India\u2019s farm crisis\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704887116},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}