6. Suggest the ways in which Governments can help farmers (selling the yield) during COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only hit manufacturing, services and business but also pushed back the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious programme to double farmers’ income by 2022. From feeding a population displaced, dislocated and frozen in its tracks, to ensuring farmers stay afloat in the coming months, the government has a tough job on its hands to which it will have to respond quickly and generously. Farmers are in deep distress after the lockdown caused disruptions in the food supply chain, scarcity of labour and resulted in a decline in demand.
People in all walks of life are stressed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but unlike in other sectors, a large majority of the farming community, including farm labour, tenant farmers and women farmers, do not have any savings to fall back upon. They deserve top priority attention.
It is largely recognised that farming is not a remunerative occupation, which is why the Modi government planned to double farmers’ income in the next two years through various schemes. Finding markets – domestic and global – was central to the plan, but the pandemic has upset the applecart, as the economy has taken a beating and the recovery period is anybody’s guess.
The untimely rain and hail that hit parts of northwest India this week and the last could not have come at a worse time, when the wheat crop is standing in the fields and farmers are short of hands to harvest and sell their produce through a fractured supply chain.
The government has opened a few procurement centres for limited operations, but restricting the entry of farmers has resulted in tardy progress and long queues, which is making farmers restive. Even the grain that has been purchased is not being moved out of the mandis quickly, exposing it to the vagaries of weather. Increase in the moisture content of rain-drenched harvest hurts the quality of grain. At this time, when the entire world is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic and there are lakhs of hungry mouths to feed, every grain is worth its value in gold.
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