Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Subsidies on Environment

Authors:

Dr. Aarti Deveshwar, Saloni

Keywords:

Agriculture, Subsidies, India, Environment.

Abstract:

Agriculture plays a very important role in the development of the economy of India. It provides food more than 1.4 billion people and total employment to 58% of Indian and contributed 19-20 % in the country’s GDP. For the growth of this sector government provide different type agricultural subsidies in the direct and indirect forms. But the main question is to know that how much beneficial is this to the agriculture sector. This paper provides an overview of the agricultural subsidy with the help of funds allocated to agricultural sector under various schemes. The authors also study various types of agricultural subsidies and their distribution system in India. This paper is based on the secondary data which are collected from the different government and research institution publications and researchers. The subsidies are very helpful in the growth of the agriculture sector but due to mismanagement it does not reach to the end users.

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