Modi shifts income goals for struggling farmers

Important demographic: Workers harvest wheat in Uttar Pradesh. Farmers have been resistant to Modi’s push to increase corporate participation in agriculture. — Bloomberg

MATHURA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has drawn up new targets to boost farmer incomes as he seeks to secure his legacy of reforming the world’s largest democracy and tries to assuage a key voting bloc disillusioned by his government’s past failures.

Modi, who is eyeing a rare third term in ongoing elections, wants to lift rural per-capita income by 50% by 2030, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.