Future of Indian agriculture: Amendments through farm reforms

India is a global agricultural powerhouse. It is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices, and has the world’s largest cattle herd (buffaloes), as well as the largest area under wheat, rice and cotton. It is the second largest producer of rice, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, farmed fish, sheep & goat meat, fruit, vegetables and tea. The country has some 195 m ha under cultivation of which some 63 percent are rainfed (roughly 125m ha) while 37 percent are irrigated (70m ha). In addition, forests cover some 65m ha of India’s land. The recently announced Agricultural reforms and schemes such as, The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020, The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion & Facilitation) Act 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020, Agriculture Infrastructure Fund and Promotion of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO) Scheme have created a versatile outreach opportunities to the farmers in various domain of production, finance and marketing as concern. The secondary data base study with the literature inputs from various research bodies and published studies was carried out to know the opinion benchmark about the recent reforms and various schemes. The study concluded that, the reforms through amendments in these agriculture core areas if carried out earnestly could go a long way in helping the farmers get out of the misery and help achieve the goal of doubling of farmer’s income in the set time frame and overcome the glitches in agriculture and its allied sectors.