Vijai: Contract farming must be incentivised
(WorldNews India)

Panaji: In order to encourage community farming in the state and ensure that land is not left fallow, minister for agriculture Vijai Sardesai is drafting a new legislation to permit contract farming. He will introduce this in the budget session of the legislative assembly next year, he told reporters on Monday. The problem, however, he says, will not be solved with just this measure. `I will need to especially incentivize community farming. As of now this is happening, but in an informal way. Some people form farming...