The Characteristics, Effects and Problems of India ’s Agricultural Support Policy

Since the green revolution, the Indian government has been adopting policies to support and protect agriculture, gradually forming a relatively complete policy support system. Increasing agricultural income is the central goal of India’ s agricultural support policy. Irrigation and soil conservation are the key projects of India’ s agricultural support policy. Agricultural science and technology are the important areas of India’ s agricultural support policy. India’ s agricultural support policy has achieved remarkable results in increasing agricultural output value, raising farmers’ income level, expanding irrigated area and enhancing international competitiveness of agricultural products. Due to overemphasis on economic benefits and little consideration of the impact on rural society, India’ s agricultural support policies are faced with such problems as the unsafeguarded rights and interests of farmers, the unitary structure of agricultural support, the instability of policy benefits, and the grab of policy benefits by a some farmers. China and India are both big agricultural countries. The study and analysis of the effects and problems of contemporary agricultural support policies in India can provide experience and lessons for China in agricultural policy formulation.