Doubling Farmers Income: Challengs Opportunities and Strategies for Horticulture Sector

The book on Doubling Farmers’ Income – Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies for Horticulture Sector is intended to examine the status of farmers income and sources of income growth across states in India. The status of farmers income across states is obtained from the report of committee on doubling farmers income, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. National Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in collaboration with NITI Aayog and Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare have brought ways in which income of farmers may be enhanced, viz., increasing the gross income, reducing the costs and stabilizing the income. The book adopts and discusses the same approach with different pathways to achieve doubling of farmers' income forthe state of Karnataka. The book specially looks at the challenges and opportunities that exist to enhance the income of farmers for horticulture sector in the state of Karnataka. In Karnataka, agriculture and horticulture activities combined constitutes about 46% of the farmer’s income followed by 14% from non-farm activities and 13% from livestock %. During the last two decades, horticultural crops have emerged as the second line of defence in the food production. Fruits and vegetables give 4-10 times the return from other crop groups.