Evaluation of National Agricultural Policies in India Since Post Green Revolution Period

Abstract

Agricultural development is a precondition of our national prosperity. Hence an attempt has been made to examine the agricultural reforms in India post green revolution period in context of National Agricultural Policy 2000 & 2020. The study shows that when it comes to productivity, agriculture showed a positive increasing trend through years; but the yield per hector doesn’t show a satisfactory trend. In year 2000 the policy objective was to achieve 4% growth rate per year till 2020. The trend show how fluctuating the agricultural growth rate per year was. Again, price level backed by financial crisis, natural calamities showed an inflation in agricultural price level for consumers. Recently in three farm bill, the government didn’t mention about the MSP and that was the reason why it led to the biggest farmers protest of all time. The trend of MSP has been seen increasing than the last year. Still the demands of the farmers for abolishing the policy was ignored by the Government. So far as the comparison shows the product pricing has been in better situation.