Context: the expenditure on agri-R&D needs to be doubled or even tripled in the next three years if growth in agriculture has to provide food security at a national level and subsidies on food and fertilisers need to be contained.
Budgetary measures by the government to bring transparency in the Agri-food sector
Shortcomings of the budgetary measures: biased towards subsidies as opposed to Investments (especially Research and Development (R&D))
Way forward: For the development of the Agri-food sector