The hollowness of the Centre on its agriculture policy, including its promise of doubling the farmers’ income by 2022, has been exposed by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing, headed by a BJP MP itself, Vice-Chairman of the Telangana State Planning Board (TSPB) B. Vinod Kumar said.
In its recent report, the committee has questioned the inefficiency of the Union Government and instructed it to find out the exact reasons for farmers’ income coming down, Mr. Vinod Kumar said here on Saturday. Doubling farmers’ income was one of the tall claims of the BJP since they came to power at the Centre and it was the staple item in all Budget speeches since February 2016.
As per a committee report on farmers’ income, the benchmark household income of farmers in 2015-16 was ₹8,059 per month and it was promised to be doubled in real terms, taking inflation into account. The targeted income by 2022 was ₹21,146 per month, he stated.
