. Continuing rural poverty with low productivity and fertilizer use in smallholder staple crops has led to their resurgence in …

Expenditures on agriculture have been rising over time, as expression of the state's commitment to reduce poverty …, raise rural incomes and household welfare, and promote food security. However, agriculture continues to exhibit … investment in irrigation, making it by far the largest single item for public spending on agriculture. Such investment plans …

Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …