• To improve the economic viability of farming by ensuring that farmers earn a “minimum net income”, and ensure that agricultural progress is measured, by the advance made in improving that income.

 

• To mainstream the human and gender dimension in all farm policies and programmes and give explicit attention to sustainable rural livelihoods.

 

• To complete the unfinished agenda in land reforms and to initiate comprehensive asset and aquarian reforms. 

 

• To develop and introduce a social security system and support services for farmers. 

 

• To protect and improve the land, water, biodiversity and climate resources essential for sustained advances in the productivity, profitability and stability of major farming systems by creating an economic stake in conservation. 

 

• To foster community-centred food, water and energy security systems in rural India and to ensure nutrition security at the level of every child, woman and man. 

 

• To introduce measures which can help to attract and retain youth in farming by making it both intellectually stimulating and economically rewarding, by conferring the power and economy of scale to small and marginal farmers both in the production and post-harvest phases of farming. 

 

• To strengthen the biosecurity of crops, farm animals, fish and forest trees for safeguarding both the work and income security of farmer families, and the health and trade security of the nation. 

 

• To restructure agricultural curriculum and pedagogic methodologies for enabling every farm and home science graduate to become an entrepreneur and to make agricultural education gender sensitive. 

 

• To make India a global outsourcing hub in the production and supply of the inputs needed for sustainable agriculture, and products and processes developed through biotechnology and Information and Communication Technology.