The this year claimed to have given thrust to the Growth of the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture sector to fulfil its promise to double the income of farmers. However, farmers continued to struggle with the issues of profitable minimum support price (MSP), adequate compensation for crop damage and draining out standing water etc.
The farmers were also not able to venture out of the wheat-paddy cycle to adopt innovative farming in an attempt to supplement their income.
An important contributor to the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), the government had also proposed a budgetary allocation of Rs 5988.76 crore to the agriculture and allied sectors, an increase of 27.7 per cent in this years budget in March.
The Economic Survey Report of the Haryana Government indicated the importance of agriculture in Haryana when it stated, Though the economic growth of the state has become more dependent on the growth in Industry and Services sectors during the past few years, the recent experience suggests that high Gross State Value Added (GSVA) growth without sustained and rapid agricultural growth was likely to accelerate Inflation in the state, jeopardising the larger growth process. The ESR stated that as per the advance estimates for 2021-22, the GSVA from the agriculture sector had a growth of 2.6 per cent.