Rural Development Strategies in India

  • Provide MSP (Minimum Support Price) for various crops to the farmers, apart from providing Crop Insurance.
  • Irrigation facilities to all the agricultural fields should be provided.
  • Provide Life Insurance to all the farmers who are actually performing agriculture.
  • Instead of giving direct cash in to the hands of farmers, Government has to provide free of cost all required inputs like quality seeds, fertilizers and pesticides etc.
  • For purchasing Tractors, Electric Motor Water Pumps etc on subsidy, Government should provide loan facility to the farmers.
  • Electricity for farmers should be supplied on subsidy rates.
  • In the event monsoon failure and crop failure due to floods etc, Government must come to the rescue of the farmers.
  • As there are no other activities except agriculture in rural areas, Government must provide loan facility to the interested educated youth for starting Startups to reduce unemployment.
  • Strengthen and develop existing Agricultural Markets in addition to the establishing new Agricultural Markets.
  • Establish new agricultural godowns in addition to the existing godowns.
  • Agricultural research, extension of rural education and training programmes for farmers should form a part of institution building activities.
  • Infrastructure building activity related to the growth of irrigation, transport, communications and health facilities.
  • Programmes to improve agricultural production and marketing should be organized.
  • Up dated information on policies related to land tenure, agricultural output, prices etc should be provided to the farmers.
  • Frequent weaving of agricultural loans for political mileage is not good for the economy as it gives wrong signals to those farmers who repay their agricultural loans promptly.