Labor employment in the
farm sector declined for the sixth straight year in 2017 and sunk to a seven-year low of 10.
At the inaugural session, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh called for "implementable solutions" from various stakeholders while sharing that the government has already reoriented its initiatives to transform
farm sector from production centric to income centric.
With good rain forecast, after two successive years of drought,
farm sector output should improve in coming months and lift depressed demand in the countryside where two- thirds of Indians live.
The two consecutive years of weak monsoon have highlighted the impact of such supply side shocks on the
farm sector dominated by small holdings.
So the message is crop prices are forecast to return to more normal levels, but the
farm sector is likely to remain financially sound.
Parallels are often made between rising
farm sector income over the last decade and the farm boom of the 1970s, which was followed by a severe downturn.
TPC owners were joined by key executives from Mahindra's Automotive&
Farm Sector, Mahindra USA, Mahindra Finance USA, Mitsubishi as well as area suppliers, partners and community leaders.
650 billion would be required for
farm sector and Rs.
The highly protected
farm sector is a major obstacle for Japan to join the U.
Earlier, the financing under the Scheme was allowed to
farm sector only.
Anglesey's
farm sector was strongly represented when local MP Albert Owen hosted an Anglesey Day at Portcullis House in the Commons.
The improvement in the US employment figures outside the
farm sector put
