New Delhi, May 21 -- The income of farmers in India has increased by 138 per cent which is more than double during the last 10 year tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while the agriculture sector has recorded its highest-ever 10-year growth rate since Independence, said Ramesh Chand, Niti Aayog Member in an exclusive interview with ANI.

Chand, who is also the former Director and Principal Economist at the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, said that Indian agriculture and allied sectors registered an average annual growth rate of 4.45 per cent between 2015 and 2026.

"This is historically the highest growth rate. You take any 10 years before 2015, Indian agriculture never achieved 4.4 per cent growth ove...