Agro experts eyes growth focussed budget

Experts opine for adopting sustainable agricultural practices to help farmers in the long run

The agriculture sector is looking ahead for Budget 2022 and has a lot of expectations from the Finance Minister.
According to Prithviraj Sen Sharma, MD and Country Head, Agoro Carbon Alliance, India, Indian growers are poised to benefit greatly from the fresh thinking the administrative bodies have around building newer, smarter, more digitally-connected ways of producing more food with fewer resources. With initiatives like More Crop Per Drop, we are taking the first steps towards building longer-term resiliency towards more and more frequent climate swings and shifts in the geo-political scenario to cement India’s place as one of the most important node points ensuring food security globally.

He says, “The upcoming union budget should reflect the shift in attitude towards being more grower-centric, building highly resilient food distribution mechanisms and ensuring our farmers are adequately compensated for their work.”

According to Dhruv Sawhney, Business Head and COO, nurture.farm, to improve farmer incomes, one has to focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices. Incentivising this for Indian farmers will have a two-pronged impact – on the one hand, it will improve the carbon footprint of agriculture, making it climate-friendly, and on the other, by leveraging carbon credits, farmers will have a scope to earn higher incomes. With the second-largest arable land in the world, India can be a world leader in establishing the potential impact on climate and farmer incomes by adopting sustainable agriculture practices. Enabling public-private partnerships in this domain can help Indian farmers leapfrog towards climate-friendly, sustainable and profitable agriculture.

Experts opine for adopting sustainable agricultural practices