{"id":48820,"date":"2025-12-18T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/assured-water-access-crucial-for-small-farmers-income-growth-harisharan-devgan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:06:18","slug":"assured-water-access-crucial-for-small-farmers-income-growth-harisharan-devgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/assured-water-access-crucial-for-small-farmers-income-growth-harisharan-devgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Assured Water Access Crucial for Small Farmers\u2019 Income Growth: Harisharan Devgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 16:<\/strong> During a visit to Tirupati, farmer activist and philanthropist Harisharan Devgan stated that guaranteed access to water remains the most critical component for enhancing the earnings of small and marginal farmers, despite the fact that subsidies alone have limited significance in this regard.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While interacting, Devgan, the chairman of the Niche Group of Companies, said that despite several welfare schemes that have brought temporary relief to farmers, the problem of the economically poorer sections of the population has still not been addressed. \u201cWithout water, no scheme or policy will give us sustainable results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Devgan also elaborated on how there are some inefficiencies in the disbursement of the welfare amount, saying, \u201cThe benefits sanctioned in their name don\u2019t necessarily reach them.\u201d However, he emphasized that this highlights the \u201cneed for improving the monitoring system and increasing transparency\u201d but explained that the intention of the government in farmer welfare is good.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Noting that more than half of Indian farming land is rain-fed, Devgan said that water insecurity is a source of exposure to climate change risks for agriculture. \u201cWe need to include water security as a national imperative, alongside the provision of roads and electricity,\u201d he said. He also advocated climate-resilient farming practices, timely crop insurance settlements, and easier access to affordable credit for small farmers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Devgan further added that he would interact with the Central Government regarding proposals for reforms in improving water availability, increasing transparency in the distribution of welfare schemes, and stabilising farmer income. \u201cThe spotlight must shift from managing farmer poverty to managing farmer prosperity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification@gmail.com to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 16: During a visit to Tirupati, farmer activist and philanthropist Harisharan Devgan stated that guaranteed access to water remains the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[625],"class_list":["post-48820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}