Agri News : NITI Aayog Requested Changes in Agriculture Sector

In order to increase agriculture productivity and farm prices, NITI Aayog is considering a series of big ticket agriculture reforms that include changes in the fertiliser policy to allow free import of urea, explore transgenic crops in pulses and oilseeds and make land laws transparent.

A paper emerging from the Aayog's task focus on agriculture development. It has moving fertiliser subsidy to the DBT platform so as to it is paid directly to farmers and domestic urea producers. "To ensure that the farmers can buy subsidised urea when he needs it, decanilise its imports," it said.

According to the paper, country should make use of transgenic seed varieties with taking necessary safeguards in areas where conventional technology is not yielding much needed gains like pulses and oilseeds.

Importance is to give remunerative prices for farmers, the Aayog's paper has suggested adopting system of "price deficiency payment".

Commenting on the needs for transparent land laws, the paper has said it will allow the potential lessee or tenant or sharecropper to engage in written contracts with the land owner while the land owner will also be able to lease land without fear of losing it to the lessor. "It is a win-win reform," it said.

Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/