The government has set up a panel to prepare a blueprint for doubling farmers' income by 2022 as promised by the Prime Minister. <br/><br/>A senior Agriculture Ministry official said, the committee will chalk out a plan to shift farm policies from being production-oriented to income -based.<br/><br/>The eight-member panel will identify potential areas of agriculture where more investment is needed. It will suggest ways to reduce the risk of farming by diversifying to horticulture and allied activities like livestock and fisheries to boost income.<br/><br/>The inter-ministerial panel will also look at reducing the cost of cultivation and addressing unpredictability of weather and price fluctuations in farm sector.<br/><br/>The committee will be headed by Ashok Dalwai, Additional Secretary in the Agriculture Ministry. The other members will be officials from Agriculture and Food Ministries as well as experts from the Delhi-based National Council of Applied Economic Research and National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research.