National Conference “Agriculture 2022- Doubling Farmers’ Income”

Agriculture 2022- Doubling Farmers’ Income

Question: Where will the National Conference on the subject of ‘Agriculture 2022-doubling the income of farmers’ be organized between February 19th-20th, 2018?
(a) Lucknow
(b) New Delhi
(c) Udaipur
(d) Hyderabad
Answer: (b) 
Related Facts:

  • A two days National Conference under the title of “Agriculture 2022 – Doubling Farmers’ Income” is scheduled on 19thand 20th February, 2018 at National Agriculture Science Complex (NASC), Pusa, New Delhi.
  • The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) is organizing the Conference.
  • The Conference is being organized on the advice of the Hon’ble Prime Minister with a view to identify various critical issues relating to agriculture and farmers’ welfare and finding appropriate solutions.
  • The main aim of the conference is to build a consensus around appropriate recommendations that will help in shaping and sharpening the vision of the Government on Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022 into actionable points.
  • As many as seven broad themes have been identified for the conference and some of these also have sub-themes.
  • The participants comprising farmers, farmers’ associations, scientists, economists, academics, trade industry, professional associations, NGOs, policy makers and officers have been assigned to different themes and sub-themes, such that the issues are examined from multiple angles and comprehensive recommendations are made.
  • Government is keen to find and adopt the suggestions of the participants that will help in yielding quick results across the agricultural sector, comprising several sub-sectors in addition to initiating long term interventions.
  • The focuswould be on the human element of this primary sector, i.e., the farmer.  It shall be farming for the farmer.
  • The select participants numbering about 300 have been invited from across the country with varied background, and are expected to bring to the table their domainexperience and expertise.

Reference:
http://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1520772