Agricultural and Biological Sciences
8 years ago

Agricultural prices policy fails to lift Indian farmers out of poverty.

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Economic and political weekly/Economic & political weekly
Agricultural prices policy and farm incomes.
G. S. Gupta

Paper Summary

Agriculture is crucial in India, but farmers are still poor. A policy to set fair prices for agricultural products has been around since World War II. This policy has helped increase farmers' incomes, but not enough to significantly boost agriculture's contribution to the country's income.

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