agriculture reform

Part 1 of a 9 part series: Doleouts, subsidies and lack of foresight has meant that Indian agriculture has deteriorated into a logjam of vested interests trying to push forward their interests at any cost, with little regard to the welfare of the poor farmers on the ground or their own future.

The agri reforms are progressive and structurally positive, given the state of agriculture in India and reflects the need of the changed times; from food-deficit to food-surplus, from need to protect farmer to providing farmer the choice, from production-centric to demand-centric.

Under the guise of opposing ordinances, farmers are being made political pawns. Farmers need to understand this. Ordinances do not repeal the existing APMC laws. These anti-social elements are doing mistake by thinking farmers as fools.

Some of the policymakers in India are perhaps not ready to digest the reality that the changing landscape has made the old calculations increasingly difficult to practice and this is manifested by recent misinformation campaign and undignified behaviour in the parliament.

PM Narendra Modi has taken several initiatives to make farmers financially strong. His commitment with actions towards making farmers income double by 2022 is quite commendable. Let’s see some of his actions on the ground.

Creating an unending ecosystem of happy farmers, labourers and bright future of the kids and thus bright future of the country.

In the budget, govt forms pavement for the progress of farmers giving top priority for agriculture, trends to utilize modern techniques, provide them free loans, help them sale their products ,conserve them all together leading to uplift of  farming.

नेचर कम्युनिकेशंस द्वारा किए गए एक हालिया अध्ययन से पता चलता है कि जैविक कृषि, जिसे समकालीन कृषि प्रथाओं का एक बेहतर विकल्प माना जाता है, वास्तव में अन्य उपलब्ध माध्यमों की तुलना में जलवायु प्रदूषण में अधिक योगदान देगा।

The Interim budget 2019-2020 presented by interim Finance minister Piyush Goyal is a logical successor to previous four budgets presented by Arun Jaitely as far as the thrust on agriculture is concerned.

The article points out at some serious systemic problems and lack of structural elements that would facilitate a more robust agriculture sector.