MUMBAI: India needs a greater focus on farmers with small land holdings and formulate a strategy to increase their income in order to realise the goal of a Viksit Bharat, or a developed nation by 2047, said P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, while delivering the 19th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture here.
During the last decade, governments — both at the Central and state levels — have taken initiatives to assist small farmers, including small and marginal farmers, he said at the lecture hosted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on November 28.
Speaking on the topic ‘Transforming Small-holder Agriculture in India in the 21st Century: Challenges and Strategies’, he said the issue of smallholder agriculture needs to be addressed in order to realise our goal of a Viksit Bharat or a developed India by 2047.
