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expansion. The newly established Development and Finance
Corporation for the Shepherd Community will be made operational.
Agricultural Workers
Effective steps will be taken to ensure sustainable year-long
employment, with minimum wages for agricultural workers. They will
be brought under the social security scheme for unorganized workers
and the proposed Antyodaya Swasthya Yojana. They will be given
priority in rural housing. Training programs for raising their productivity
and skills will be encouraged.
Other issues
1) Women play a major, albeit unrecognized, role in Indian agriculture.
A special scheme will be launched to empower women in kisan families,
enrich their capabilities, and augment their incomes.
2) An extensive campaign will be launched to educate Indian kisans
about the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, the challenges and
opportunities in global trade in agriculture after the removal of
Quantitative Restrictions, and how a partnership between the
government, businesses, cooperatives, and kisans can help the country
meet the challenges and capture the opportunities.
The "Second Green Revolution" will follow a strategy distinctly different
from the one that defined the First Green Revolution. The latter
focused mostly on the popularization of high-yielding crop varieties to
overcome food shortage. In contrast, the Second Green Revolution will
embrace the entire Agro-Economy, from the farmer to the consumer. It
will harness a bouquet of new technologies, space, IT, BT. It will also
focus on water-efficient irrigation systems, environment-friendly
pesticides, precision agriculture, agriculture markets, food processing,
rural infrastructure, etc.
Many of the activities mentioned above are looked after by different
Departments and Ministries. For better coordination, a Cabinet
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development will be set up.
Rural Development
The Government's main thrust in the coming five years will be to
bridge the rural-urban divide through implementation of the PURA
(Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) program. Under
this program, to be implemented in ten thousand rural clusters across
the country in five years, every cluster will be provided with four types
of connectivities:
(a) physical connectivity, which includes good roads and power supply;
(b) digital connectivity, which includes modern telecom and IT
services;
(c) knowledge connectivity, which includes good schools and
vocational training centers; and
(d) market connectivity, which includes good market infrastructure.
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