Agriculture & Farmers Welfare | Ripe for the next agri revolution
In the past 10 years, the Modi government has done fairly well in removing many of the glitches on the input side of farming. However, its attempts to reform the farm gate to market access side have seen scant success.
The Centre tried to open up the segment in 2020 with three new farm laws. Only to run into extremely rough weather after the farm unions went up in arms in 2020-21. Changing tack, the government has since tried to revitalise the cooperative sector to strengthen the farm gate infrastructure in order to help farmers build capacity and storage facilities and enable them to command remunerative prices for their produce. Chouhan has a reputation for not working in "closed chambers"; he likes to meet, discuss, understand and fine-tune public policy and, as a source says, bring a "human touch to the dotted line". That trait should now come in handy in taking the states along and ensuring that the next set of reforms don't face the same headwinds.
