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India’s goal of becoming the world’s food factory will depend not only on boosting exports but also on fixing deep structural problems, experts said at BS Manthan on Wednesday. They pointed to concerns such as declining soil health, poorly targeted fertiliser subsidies, uneven growth across crops and distorted market incentives that need urgent attention. Speaking at a panel discussion titled 'Can India be the world’s food factory?', the experts said that although India has become a major exporter of products like rice and shrimp, it must carry out reforms in precision farming, improve subsidy targeting, strengthen market systems, and focus on long-term policy planning to sustainably feed both its population and global markets.
