WHY THE GROWTH RATE IN AGRICULTURE IS DECELERATING ? IS IT ALARMING SITUATION ? EXPLAIN ?
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We could explain this as a common man.
As we observe in or society, there are many selfish people who are acting as intermediates between the farmer and the market/consumer. The intermediate will buy the crop/produce from the farmer at very low price. If the farmers ask them to pay higher prices, they would reject their crop. So, farmers are left without any choice except to sell their crops at lower price because, if every intermediate rejects his crop in the same way, he would not get money. Since farmers are not educated, they could not directly go and sell the crop in markets and they could not decide the correct amount of money they should get for the crop. These intermediates are taking it as advantage, buying at less price and selling them at nearly 3-4 times at markets.
As a result, farmers don't get money. If they don't have money, they couldn't buy fertilizers,seeds etc. for next crop season. So they will borrow money and produce crop and again get loss. As they got less money, they couldn't pay the money back to the money lenders are swept into a bigger debt in the process. Many farmers are frustrated because they are not getting at least enough money to feed their families. So they are leaving agriculture and are migrating to urban areas for working as a daily laborer to get more money.
And yes, this is a very alarming situation because if all farmers leave agriculture, how will you get your food? how will you survive? That's why, "FARMERS ARE THE BACKBONE OF OUR COUNTRY". Can you survive if your backbone was broken and collapsed?
Realizing this, the government had issued a order, introducing the MSP (Minimum support price). According to this, the intermediate/ consumer/ trader should buy the crop from the farmer at a minimum price that was set by the government as MSP.
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