One major goal of economic development in the farming sector is to raise the rate of farmers' income per capita, to be equal to or higher than the non-farming sector. For decades, this noble goal has not been achieved.
In the past, the country experienced some success when the income gap per head between those in the farming sector and others was narrowed by eight times to 4-4.5 times in the late 2000s. Then it became stagnant.
