The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted the general monsoon for this year and I guess that if the monsoon remains good, then once again the record will produce food grains. This agriculture growth rate will be increased by 4.4 per cent figure of 2016-17. The Minister of Agriculture Radhamohan Singh spoke to the media on the achievements of the Modi government in the field of agriculture in three years. A good monsoon always works to bring the smile on the face of the economy and I am sure that every Indian will have a good monsoon in coming years.
Perhaps the former Minister of Agriculture (Sq.) Chaturand Mishra often said, ‘Real Agriculture Minister is Monsoon. If the monsoon remains good, the agriculture yields will be good and if not, the yields will be lower. ’There is no wonder foodgrain production this year stood at 273.38 million tonnes which has so far recorded. Agricultural production is increased after two consecutive droughts of 2014-15 and 2015-16. It is expected that an increase in agriculture growth rate will help to increase the rate of economic growth.
There is no doubt that these data have made a little good feeling, but when they go behind these data, agriculture is visible in the vortex of the severe crisis. Ozal villages from our eyes have been fighting the battle of their existence for a long time. Nevertheless, the agriculture sector has become a victim of persistent indifference and neglect, which is beyond understanding. Hardly, there is a day when the news of suicide of farmers from the rough corner of the country does not come to newspapers.
It is evidenced by which a farmer is undergoing a tragedy in India. In recent years, farmers have grown rapidly. The fact that the Punjab, which is said to be the food grains of India, is now transformed into a sensitive area from the farmer’s suicide.
Price from the Bayern Market
A report from this week, onion producers from Madhya Pradesh came to the state of the farmers. Already the tremendous yield of potatoes forced farmers to sell on their produce and prices. Now, hundreds of Indore farmers have had to be forced to either burn or feed them into the farms. A kilo of onion price in Indore was found at a rate of Rs. 50 with a rate of Rs. 3. In order not to get a good price before, Maharashtra farmers had to be constrained on their crop roads.
This story is not just onion.
An angry farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka are overturning their crop of tomatoes on highways. The average value of tomatoes in some of the pavilions of Andhra Pradesh in the busiest season of tomato production remained between Rs. 30 per kg of money. It is often freckled by naming the seasonal problem when it comes to market prices. But think about the farmer who doesn’t get a reasonable price of yield due to a reduction in prices despite working a break in the farms and yielding a good harvest.
The market is also going to lead to a serious impact on the livelihood of the farmers. Take the same example of pulses. After the unprecedented hikes in retail prices of pulses, the government worked on a double-sided strategy to increase the availability of pulses. On the one hand the government made an agreement with Mozambique to cultivate the pulse there. Under this, India will bring you here by purchasing the stemed pulse in Mozambique.
On the other hand, the government announced to give additional bonuses to the minimum support value to encourage domestic production. But, when the production of second pulses, including Thur reached 22 million tonnes and the market fell from the bullying, the government just bought pulses to meet the needs of buffer stock and left the majority of farmers to face the cruelty of the market.
Food-combination continues. If you think that 2017 was a poor year especially for tomato farmers, when much production caused unprecedented abundance conditions, you are in Ghalathami. This story has been repetitive in 2016, 2015 and 2014. Even earlier in 2013, 2012 and 2011, farmers had to suffer. If you search on the Internet, you will get a pattern of good harvest and desperate farmer. You can also repeat this search for other crops in addition to tomatoes. This story will also be found in most parts of the country for onion, potatoes, pulses, gobi, mustard, soybeans, cotton, pepper, castors and even wheat and paddy. And you’ll find that every time the government didn’t end up helping them to save the distressed farmer community.
Promote Corporate Agriculture
Government policies are overlooking the majority of farmers (a land of less than 2 hectares) of 83 per cent of farmers close to the country and growing rapidly away from farmers dependent on agriculture for their outflow. His focus is on promoting corporate agriculture. E-Name Initiative, under which 585 regulated bulk markets are proposed to be added, is actually an integral part of commodity trading. A model law has already been sent to the states regarding contract farming and a powerful legal framework for land acquisition is going to come soon.
If it is seen to be combined with the framework created under the National Skill Development Council, which aims to reduce the population based on agriculture by 2022 to 38 per cent from the existing 58 per cent, then it appears to be clean enough to move towards corporate agriculture. In such a time as ‘India Spend’, the average Mahj 2.13 lakh new jobs have been built every year in the past three years, leaving the farmers out of farming and making them part of the crowd of unemployed youth cannot be said to be economically uncluttered. Three years of time is extremely important for any government. It’s time when the government is staying and taking the stock of his works and improving the policies as a result of ‘Subka Vikas’. The first and urgent policy reform will be that record food production should be stopped looking as an indicator of good health of agriculture.
It’s time to get out of the fascination of agriculture development figures, and it’s important to worry about the welfare of the farmers, which may begin to grow well in agriculture income. The economic survey of 2016-17 tells us that the average income of agricultural families in 17 states of India is Rs 20,000, which is close to the average income of the country. It is also less than the annual mobile bill of an average, preferential mobileist citizen living in the city. It is unfortunate that the NITI Aayog and the Prime Minister’s Office is repeating the same misconceptions for the patient, which has led to the current crisis.
Promoting food grains production, reducing production costs and dropping agricultural prices to market resurrection, is actually part of the wrong decisions that have pushed agriculture into deep swamps. It has benefitted those who provide inputs without exception. The real story is the same. The NITI Aayog has already achieved the efficiency level target for the whole country. 98 per cent fixed irrigation facilities (no country in the world is close to it) and farmers are suicide in Punjab with the highest productivity in terms of food grains in the world? The way not only the Punjab crisis is being ignored, but also the pressure on the way of Punjab is being made on the other states, it is obvious that there is no huge disturbance in our policy planning.
The defeat has not been farmers. The defeat is of economists and policymakers who have left the farmers in the tide. In this frustration time, only agriculture has the ability to recreate the economy. Further economic way can be made only if the government decides to leave the shown path of credit rating agencies. This is Mumkin, provided the government can raise political courage necessary to create a axis of growth and sustainable development to agriculture.
Corporate Help, Anjutha to Farmers
Now compare it with stock market in 2015. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had arrived at Harkat within the sunny hours of the market and was reliant to investors by a press conference that the government has been keeping an eye on events. A War Room was built for this work. Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian has been deployed throughout the day front. But, when it comes to farmers facing an unprecedented deterioration in the prices, which destroys the livelihood of millions of small and marginal farmers, the government’s ears do not creep to the lice. As the Tajjjo government gives rise to the stock market, its contributor also does not deny the fall of agricultural value. Inequality in behavior towards both is manifested in such a clean way.
But this inequality does not end here. "The Government has taken 7,000 large, small, medium, and nano measures to facilitate business," said Nirmala Sitharaman, the Minister of Business on the last day. The result is that the states have also realized that making business accessible is a main agenda and they have also understood the advantage of running on this path. Not only that, the Chief Economic Adviser on the Record has said that it is a financially wise decision to eradicate the poor debts of the corporate sector (Bad Loans) from the account, as ‘Punjit works similarly. But when it comes to agriculture, we can’t count more than dozen public investment programs.
Doubling the income of farmers in the next five years, Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme, Prime Minister Agriculture Irrigation Scheme, E-National Agricultural Market (E-Name), Soil Health Cards, Neem’s Leap ascended Urea (Neem Coated Urea) and more crop on every drop (drop on mor crop) etc. are similar schemes. In addition to these key programs, there are also some other programs, such as direct transfer of fertilizer subsidy and market intervention programs. I can say with the claim that if all of these programs are added together, the Government cannot list small or large 50 programs (including programs/projects already run with mild ferrule) in the agriculture sector.
Crop debt waiver is also constantly criticized. However, India ratings are assessed that corporate debts trapped in a crisis worth Rs 4 lakh crore can be cleaned in the near future. But the Reserve Bank of India has clarified that it is not in favor of publicizing the names of those who do not know the debt. Only 6,857 companies together have taken a debt of Rs 94,649 crore. RBI has already made an announcement that it is not in favour of a loan of Rs. 36,359 crores relieving about 92 lakh farmers declared in Uttar Pradesh.
In this way, RBI has conveyed stringent messages to the states that had a pressure to waive debt. Interestingly, RBI’s upright debt-culture only hurts when farmers do not pay debt. The facility of waiver of poor debt is for corporate sector only. We have been told that capitalism works similarly. During the next 5 years, the debate continues to double the income of farmers has doubled itself in the last few months. But with every passing year, there is no eccentric effort to make the farmers constantly pushing deeper into the crisis in which they are being pushed deeper.
Even if the promise of doubled the income of the farmers is repeated again and again, there is no solid blueprint for wearing it alone. It is said that the range of crop debts is expected to provide loan support to the agricultural sector in a constant crisis behind Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 10 lakh crore, trying to betray the eyes in itself. It is a clever way of distracting the attention of the people on the side of BJP’s failure to meet the promise of giving 50 percent benefit to farmers at agricultural costs.
I have always said that the urgent need is to be withdrawn to the agricultural debt in excess of Rs one lakh crore and its place to be started by raising the benefit of farmers by justified agricultural value by 50%. Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised it before the general election. But his government has now been dead with it, and he has given a plea in the Supreme Court, saying that it is not impossible to do so.
