{"id":31640,"date":"2018-10-27T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31640"},"modified":"2018-10-27T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:32:58","slug":"climate-change-may-hit-farm-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-change-may-hit-farm-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change may hit farm income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/climate-change-may-hit-farm-income\/article22563523.ece\">Climate change may hit farm income<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Economic Survey 2017-18 said farmer income losses from climate change could be between 15% and 18% on an average, rising to anywhere between 20%-25% in unirrigated areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technologies like drip irrigation hold key to future of agriculture; \u2018replace power subsidy with DBT\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c[The] Prime Minister\u2019s goal of doubling farmers\u2019 incomes \u2014 increasingly runs up against the contemporary realities of Indian\u00a0agriculture,\u00a0and the harsher prospects of its vulnerability to long-term climate change,\u201d pointed out the survey, adding that India needed to expand irrigation \u2013 and do so against a backdrop of rising water scarcity and depleting groundwater resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Full Irrigation a problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFully irrigating Indian agriculture, that too against the backdrop of water scarcity and limited efficiency in existing irrigation schemes, will be a defining challenge for the future.<\/li>\n<li>Technologies of drip irrigation, sprinklers and water management \u2014 captured in the \u201cmore crop for every drop\u201d campaign \u2014 may well hold the key to future Indian agriculture,\u201d said the survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Power subsidy needs to be removed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Power subsidy needs to be replaced by direct benefit transfers so that power use can be fully costed and water conservation furthered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Temperature shocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Extreme temperature shocks reduce farmer incomes by 4.3% and 4.1% during kharif and rabi<em>\u00a0<\/em>respectively, whereas extreme rainfall shocks reduce incomes by 13.7% and 5.5%. \u201cOnce again, these average effects mask significant heterogeneity, with the largest adverse effects of weather shocks being felt in unirrigated areas, it said<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supply shock dominates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ex-ante it is not clear which direction farm revenues should move in \u2014 on the one hand, these shocks reduce yields, but on the other, the lower supply should increase local prices.<\/li>\n<li>The results here clearly indicate that the \u201csupply shock\u201d dominates \u2014 reductions in yields lead to reduced revenues,\u201d said the Survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Different agricultures and different challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Survey observes that while thinking about agricultural policy reforms in India, it is vital to make a clear distinction between two agricultures in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Types:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northern India: Cereals based<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an agriculture \u2014 the well-irrigated, input-addled, and price-and-procurement-supported cereals grown in Northern India \u2014 where the challenge is for policy to change the form of the very generous support from prices and subsidies to less damaging support in the form of direct benefit transfers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central, Western and Southern India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand there is another agriculture (broadly, non-cereals in central, western and southern India) where the problems are very different such as inadequate irrigation, continued rain dependence, ineffective procurement, and insufficient investments in research and technology (non-cereals such as pulses, soyabeans, and cotton), high market barriers and weak post-harvest infrastructure (fruits and vegetables), and challenging non-economic policy (livestock),\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change may hit farm income Context The\u00a0Economic Survey 2017-18 said farmer income losses from climate change could be between 15% and 18% on an average, rising to anywhere between 20%-25% in unirrigated areas of the country. 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