Doubling farmers' income (DFI) is a target set by the government of India in February 2016 to be achieved by 2022.
[1][2][3] The DFI Committee submitted hundreds of recommendations to this effect in September 2018 and is empowered to oversee their implementation.
[5][8] The next day Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stated in his budget speech "We are grateful to our farmers for being the backbone of the country's food security.
[9] On 13 April 2016, a Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) Committee was set up under Ashok Dalwai, who was at that time an additional secretary in the union ministry of agriculture.
[5][11] Dalwai stated in October 2019 that DFI strategy will be based on increasing productivity, rational resource use and ensuring farmer's to remunerative prices.