Welcome half measures
There is zero merit in the idea that jobs can only be created if industrialists are allowed to acquire farmers’ lands without their consent.
There is zero merit in the idea that jobs can only be created if industrialists are allowed to acquire farmers’ lands without their consent.
The Bharat Krishak Samaj advocated a list of small investments to smoothen the rough edges of farm policies, instead of grand gestures that amount to little.
Good intentions based on bad understanding aggravate an already challenging situation. Policy and implementation must be designed with more rigour than in the past.
If the farmer viewpoints get incorporated into policies, a future where farm children are better off than the quagmire in which their forefathers live may well be possible.
Preposterous suggestions that farmers are incapable of spending funds judiciously need to be dismissed and the farmer given the right to decide how to finance their farms.
The Indian farmer is in a bind; facing an unfolding nightmare with the fall of commodity prices in India and fertiliser selling at black market rates.
People support independent voices, in this case, the Farmers’ Forum, now 24 issues old. Yet they go to any length to thwart independence if it is contrary to their views
Farm sector policies have not incentivised self-sustainability but have forced farmers on a path where they survive on doles. Will things change under a new government?
The budget has a host of announcements that are vague and numbers that are unconvincing at a time the farm sector needs financial injection and fiscal inclusion.
As in the past, in its bid to pre-empt higher food inflation, the establishment has misread the signals and generated a crisis of lower prices for the farmers.