Solutions to improve State of Agriculture

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Below are the key solutions identified by you to improve the state of Agriculture in India. Please review and if you find anything missing, kindly add it as a comment.

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Improving the state of Agriculture – Solutions

1. The Government should set up Farming schools in rural areas and provide free minimum education on various fields
2. Encourage the private sector and corporates to set up farming schools and universities all over the country for higher learning and research in farming sector and related areas
3. Encourage forming of local or regional societies for Seed banks and banks for farm related inputs such as Fertilizers Pesticides and providing them to farmers on easy terms and at relatively cheaper rates
4. The middleman should be eradicated and the farmers should be able to sell directly to the buyer
5. Marketing of agricultural produce should be taken up by village committees and monitored by state and central governments to ensure profits to the farmers
6. Loan dispersal should be made easy to farmers for agricultural purposes
7. Interest on these loans should be reduced
8. Crops should be insured by the government/private players against drought and floods
9. Alternate sources of irrigation water should be developed
10. Drought areas should be identified and monitored by government to provide moral and financial support to farmers
11. Government should look to make some big investment to boost the agricultural sector
12. More opportunities should be developed in this sector to prevent mass exodus to cities
13. Alternate sources of generating electricity should be developed so that cheap power could be supplied to farmers
14. The department taking care of the farmer welfare should be made accountable for their work
15. Conversion of agricultural lands for industries, real estate and fishing farms should be restricted
16. There should be an increase in the technological intervention to improve productivity
17. There should be Central Government Facilitated, single window facilities to help farmers with solving issues ranging from fertilizer to crop selling
18. Promote the natural farming and crop rotation
19. Skill training should be provided to the farmers via National Skills Development initiative more

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Vijaybhasker Srinivas

In the ultimate analysis, there are two interconnected issues to be solved: (a) the surplus left with the farmer from the farming activities (after taking into account the household labour, and the monetary value of the land used during the season also), and (b) the relative value of the surplus vis-a-vis the industrial goods. Since entrepreneurs are able to increase the margins of their (industrial) products through innovative positioning, pricing and promotion, they are able to increase the prices of industrial goods. But in the absence of a similar repositioning exercise in agricultural commodities (except perhaps in the domains of minor millets and organic produce - which are becoming a fashion these days), the farmers are unable to increase the prices in the general markets. This has led to a stagnation of agricultural income while the income of others has steadily shown a rise - thus making agriculture unremunerative. The only options that have been tried so are are (a) improving the yield (efficiency) of agriculture by improving access to inputs (including irrigation), technology & training, and (b) providing a minimum support price. The other option of promotion of cooperatives has not worked in all circumstances due to the very nature of cooperatives, the absence of strong & continuous leadership, and political fabric on which the cooperatives are being formed. Generation of entrepreneurial surplus and ploughing it back to the farmers is the only way for improving the farmers income in a way that matches the non-agricultural employees remuneration. And cooperatives, which are free from the government influence and are free to act as independent actors in the market and enter into value-addition activities on behalf of the farmers, is the only option to plough back the entrepreneurial surplus back to the farmers. Unfortunately, this has not received attention in the above list of suggestions. I plead for including this also in the above list of suggestions. more

Dec 28

Col Balbir Singh Mathauda

Farmer’s community had voted to BJP for assured procurement and remunerative prices for their produces. However Central govt policies are geared more towards tackling shortage and curbing price rise than protecting farmers on the edge Country’s rural economy has suffered and distressed farmers are committing suicides because they are unable to recover their input cost There is a need to help farmers through measures like:- 1 Buying inputs cheaper and getting a higher price for their produces. 2 No ban on export of farmer’s produce under pressure from media and farmers should be allowed to benefit especially when prices are high in international market 3 Ban on export is lifted when farmers sold their produce to manufacturers, traders and industrialist who benefit from it. 4 Import of food items affects farmers adversely.On producing bumper crops they are not getting good prices that force them to dump their produce on roads in protest 5 Fix MSP and arrange procurement at MRP when a bumper crops 6 Incentive to exporters for export of farmers produce 7 Extend tax exemption to set up small scale units for food processing and for utilization of the crop residue as granted to hilly states 8 Reservation in education and jobs to economical weaker small and marginal farmers more

Dec 20

Col Balbir Singh Mathauda

I am happy that PM has accepted one of my suggestion to fix MSP of farmers produce more

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