EDITORIAL

摘要

Indian agriculture needs to catch up with a 4% annual growth and only value addition can bring about dramatic improvements in the farm sector and result in higher incomes at different points of the rural economy. The complex nature and structure of the Indian agrarian economy with highly fragmented land holdings and subsistence and marginal farming, inadequate levels of technology, credit and marketing linkages makes it difficult to deploy any initiative in the agri-value chains. Therefore, only a demand driven agricultural development strategy can make the desired impact on the agri value chains leading to higher farm incomes.