The aggressive promotion of Makhana high-value crop may bring closer the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022–23, provided the shortage of seeds of improved varieties and of skilled processors can be managed. Also, there is the need of a Mission Mode approach to integrate and federate farmers in an alternate value chain to cut the costs of redistribution of Makhana through distant wholesale markets. Enabling features of e-NAM and product diversification to explore good demand from the ’Wellness and Nutritional Care’ industry may be helpful. But all of this would essentially need a state level Makhana specific Anchor to hold hands.
Doubling farmers’ income, high-value crops, e-NAM, Anchor, nutrition, Maharashtra
