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ensure a profitable and
sustainable agricultural production system and raise the purchasing
power by increasing real income of the farmers;
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preserve and develop
land productivity;
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reduce excessive
dependence on any single crop to minimize the risk;
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increase production and
supplies of more nutritious food crops and thereby ensuring food
security and improving nutritional status;
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preserve existing
bio-diversity of different crops;
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take up programs for the
introduction, utilization and extension of bio-technology;
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take necessary steps to
ensure environmental protection as well as ‘environment-friendly
sustainable agriculture’ through increased use of organic manure and
strengthening of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs;
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take appropriate steps
to develop an efficient irrigation system and encourage farmers in
providing supplementary irrigation during drought with a view to
increasing cropping intensity and yield;
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establish agriculture as
a diversified and sustainable income generating sector through
strengthening of ‘Farming System’ based agricultural production
and agro-forestry programs;
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take effective steps to
ensure input supplies to the farmers at fair prices in a competitive
market and remove difficulties at the farmers’ level which have
arisen out of the privatization of input distribution system;
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develop marketing system
to ensure fair prices of agricultural commodities;
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introduce an appropriate
institutional system of providing credit to ensure the availability of
agricultural credit in time;
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produce and supply of
agricultural commodities as required by the industrial sector;
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reduce imports of
agricultural commodities and find out newer opportunities for
increasing exports as well;
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create opportunities for
establishing agro-processing and agro-based industries;
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protect interests of the
small, marginal and tenant farmers;
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update the agricultural
system in the light of the Agreement on Agriculture under WTO,
SAFTA and other international treaties by protecting the national
interests; and
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develop contingency
management system to combat natural disasters.