Make a report on problems of Indian farmers and what should government do to uplift the farmers as they are the backbone of country's economy - 4 pages. Paste pictures and the government policies already inactive.
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The critical issues that plague Indian agriculture at present are the knowledge deficit and infrastructure deficit, especially in the rural areas. Problems related to irrigation infrastructure, market infrastructure and transport infrastructure add significant cost to farmers' operations. Another issue is lack of delivery mechanisms. There are a number of schemes aimed to bring development in agriculture. We do not have effective delivery mechanisms that can translate into effective facilitation in terms of increasing productivity or decreasing cost or increasing price realization at the ground level. Moreover, inadequate government support exacerbates these issues. Thus, corporate farming could be a solution to Indian agrarian sector, but it needs a deep thinking and innovating better policies so that neither the corporates nor the farmers be at loss. Also the role of central government and state governments needs to be defined clearly as because of being a joint subject, it creates lot of confusion. Eminent experts should do research in this aspect and governments must take a proactive action. Indian agrarian sector in fact requires very innovative ideas for uplifting of this sector. Also, without mechanization, farming is hard and back-breaking work. This has resulted in most farmers' children quitting farming and going for other vocations. Farmers get more money in selling their land to builders, malls and factories. This has put more pressure on farmland, thereby requiring technologies to increase the productivity so that shrinking farmland can feed billion plus people of India in the future. India, though one of the biggest producers of agricultural products, has very low farm productivity, with the average only 33 percent of the best farms world over. This needs to be increased so that farmers can get more remuneration from the same piece of land with less labour.