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Challenges facing the Doha Development Round Trade Negotiations On Agriculture
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Indian Agriculture- Some Facts
Contributes to 24% of GDP
Provides food to 1Billion people
Sustains 65% of the population : helps alleviate poverty
Produces 51 major Crops
Provides Raw Material to Industries
Contributes to 1/6th of the export earnings
One of the 12 Bio-diversity centers in the world with over 46,000 species of plants and 86,000 species of animals recorded
Current Concerns
Pressure of the Population on Land
Skewed distribution of operational holdings
Land Degradation
Water Balance
Low level of mechanization
Low Fertilizer Consumption
TARGETS
Food Grain Production will be doubled in ten years, so as to make India hunger free .
Special emphasis will be on horticulture production in order to achieve a quantum increase.
Allied sectors like live stock, dairy poultry, fisheries, will be promoted
Production of oilseeds and pulses will be raised substantially.
Strategies & Initiatives : Enhancing Value Addition
Draft National Policy on Food Processing prepared.
Draft Processed Food Development Act formulated.
Package of promotional schemes available for infrastructure development and quality improvement.
To raise the processing level by 10% , an investment of approximately Rs 1400 billion required.
Uruguay Round Agricultural Negotiations
Prompted by surpluses in post-war period and consequent disarray in world agriculture.
Disciplines with regard to all measures affecting trade in Agriculture envisaged.
Including not only import access but also domestic policies, export subsidies , sanitary and phytosanitary measures.