Pathetic poor conditions of framers in india
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This is because farming is not recognised as an important work in the primary sector. Farmers are still abused. Since they do not have a collateral to approach a bank for their loans, they have to approach money lenders. Money lenders give out small amounts of loan at a high rate of interest. If the farmer's crop for a year fails, they are unable to return the loan due to the high rate of interest. Because of this, they end in a debt trap. This leads to the high suicidal rates of farmers in India.
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The conditions of the farmers in India are as follows.
Money Lenders still play a major role for agriculture credit where the interest paid to them will be more than profit that one can earn from cultivated crops.
MNREGA Effect : It is very difficult to get labors after MNREGA . If some one talks about the de-merits of MNREGA is adjudged as anti-poor. But the reality is MNREGA ruined agriculture with labor shortages and the schema is anti-agriculture. Instead the government can enroll people under MNREGA and give them 100 days of wage and allow them to work in agriculture.
Productivity vs price : The crop price is inversely proportional to productivity. If the productivity is more then the price will be less and vice versa.
Good rainfall, good productivity and good prices never ever come together. So the income of the farmers will be either marginal or no profit or loss.
Only the large farmers can get used of machines and get good productivity with less production cost.
Now a days the cost of paddy cultivation is same as the final output . Only the paddy grasses is profit of farmers which they can use it as fodder for cattle.
Crops will be destroyed by too much of rainfall or drought or if everything is good and productivity is more then the price will be less.
Urban consumers who used to get elite media attention will protest if the food prices goes up but they will not understand the problems faced by the farmers.
Cost of tomato : 100 per/kg is a breaking news. Tomato 1 per/kg is no news .
Middlemen : These are the people who earn by sucking the farmers blood. We used to sell for example onion 10 rupees s/kg but the same i get in Bangalore for 50 rupees/kg for the most the times.
Every farmer wants their children to move out of agriculture because they know the difficulty of agriculture