The choice to move toward export-oriented agriculture strategy offers inclusive pathways towards the development of agricultural sector. Analyse (200 Words)
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· A bigger challenge from the ordinary farmer’s perspective was the closure of local mandi across the majority of states, choking off the only real marketing platform available to them.
· Yet, all major cities across the country continued to receive supplies of fresh vegetables, fruits, and milk throughout the lockdown. Even as dozens of instances emerged of produce being dumped for lack of buyers or crashing prices, farmers as a community have kept the agri-engine running on a lower gear.
· To add to the many woes of agriculture, we also have the unprecedented reverse migration of lakhs of migrant labourers, fleeing locked-down cities, and closed factories and workshops. At the same time, domestic supply of all agri-goods, except oilseeds, is in surplus.
· We need a proactive agriculture export strategy, covering every category of agri-produce available in India: field crops, horticulture, dairy, livestock, poultry, and fisheries.
· It introduces an entirely new dimension to how investments in agriculture by farmers, cooperatives, and farmer producer organisation (FPOs), SHGs, supply chain agents, technology providers and value addition players—and, most of all, the government—will be viewed.
· This will lead to arrest of displacement of migrant laborers and offers them employment, at the same time Interstate migrant workers act 1979 should amended to bring more benefits to the workers.
· The millions of family-run farms spread across the second largest arable area in the world, which is situated in 15 agro-climatic zones, has abundant labour, and a long tradition of farming that makes for quick adoption of new technologies.
· No other sector offers such an inclusive and pan-India potential for reviving growth, employment, and incomes in the next 18-24 months.
Bhanu Tiwari 5 years
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Jagadish 5 years
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Good attempt. Try to explain the linkages in last part of the flow chart and link it with interstate migrant workers act. Keep Writing.
Hari 5 years
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Need better understanding. Try to include outcomes of agri-export strategy, how it increase its share in economic growth of a country ( increasing employability). Keep Writing.
Sanjeev Kumar Singh 5 years
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Try to cut short the introduction part. Avoid writing general points and try to include specific points with data to support your answer. Keep Writing.
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