Recently we came across the FDI(http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/7/604/fdi-in-retailing1.asp) phenomena in Retail…how does it suits the Indian Agriculture industry? As far as other retail goods are concerned I am somehow convinced that it might change the scenario for the betterment of the present situation…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India
But for Agriculture I don’t think it will anyway make any sense, rather situation would worsen…
The only thing that could make Indian farmers stopping from suicide or make a handsome living out of farming would definitely be the Minimum support price of the vegetables and the crops they cultivate…
For example if you go to a distant village from the town say Jamshedpur in Jhrakhand, they have vast land of agriculture and farmers cultivate vegetable and mainly paddy and wheat..Whereas for Paddy there is a minimum support price and it does not fluctuate much its in a range of 900-1200 per quintal..
But for vegetables like tomato..the pain is there…I have seen the prices ranging from Rs 1 to Rs 60…whopping 6000% variance,,,
For an acre of land the total cost that would incur to the farmer would be nothing less than Rs 10000 but we generally do not calculate the salary of the people who spends day and night for this land,,,if at least 100 rs per day then also for three months it would be around Rs. 10000 more so total Rs.20000 and it would produce around 10 quintal of tomatoes..if everything goes fine..now if the market is good farmer can get a price of rs 5 per kg in village market only…then farming surely a lucrative business….but the pain comes when the price goes down to Rs 1..so it’s a 10k loss per acre which is surely a big chunk of money the farmer going to lose…
Now the other part of the story…people in Jamshedpur they buy the tomato at a price of rs 20/Kg on an average for whole of the year…where as the cost of producing tomato would be Rs 2 per Kg if the farmer has his own land…so a whopping 18 rs per Kg they are paying extra…neither the Farmers nor the customers are benefited..then Who? Yes here comes the middleman.Who just bring the goods from the famers and sale at least 3000-4000% profit…
So if Government can fix the price of each good in a range of say 25% profit for the farmers and 25% profit for the middle man and 25% profit for the retailers who sells the vegetables…but the price need to be decided by the group of farmers who really cultivates not by the people who thinks paddy stem is used for furniture! Jokes apart…..customers will be happy…they can buy the things at least 100% less price whole year…and inflation bound to come to bottom….
Can have a range of price like farmers can't sell the price more than Rs X per kg and less than Rs Y kg depending on off and on seasons... so it that way black marketing also can be checked to some extents...
It might change the scenario and a farmer’s revolution is a due then…they are the people who fed India but the most neglected one…
A policy need to be implanted..there will be time when people will have an industry based on agriculture and farmers does not have to suicide…make my words….Just need a proper planning commission…who does not plans out of the theory given by western jerks..rather by few practical people….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India
But for Agriculture I don’t think it will anyway make any sense, rather situation would worsen…
The only thing that could make Indian farmers stopping from suicide or make a handsome living out of farming would definitely be the Minimum support price of the vegetables and the crops they cultivate…
For example if you go to a distant village from the town say Jamshedpur in Jhrakhand, they have vast land of agriculture and farmers cultivate vegetable and mainly paddy and wheat..Whereas for Paddy there is a minimum support price and it does not fluctuate much its in a range of 900-1200 per quintal..
But for vegetables like tomato..the pain is there…I have seen the prices ranging from Rs 1 to Rs 60…whopping 6000% variance,,,
For an acre of land the total cost that would incur to the farmer would be nothing less than Rs 10000 but we generally do not calculate the salary of the people who spends day and night for this land,,,if at least 100 rs per day then also for three months it would be around Rs. 10000 more so total Rs.20000 and it would produce around 10 quintal of tomatoes..if everything goes fine..now if the market is good farmer can get a price of rs 5 per kg in village market only…then farming surely a lucrative business….but the pain comes when the price goes down to Rs 1..so it’s a 10k loss per acre which is surely a big chunk of money the farmer going to lose…
Now the other part of the story…people in Jamshedpur they buy the tomato at a price of rs 20/Kg on an average for whole of the year…where as the cost of producing tomato would be Rs 2 per Kg if the farmer has his own land…so a whopping 18 rs per Kg they are paying extra…neither the Farmers nor the customers are benefited..then Who? Yes here comes the middleman.Who just bring the goods from the famers and sale at least 3000-4000% profit…
So if Government can fix the price of each good in a range of say 25% profit for the farmers and 25% profit for the middle man and 25% profit for the retailers who sells the vegetables…but the price need to be decided by the group of farmers who really cultivates not by the people who thinks paddy stem is used for furniture! Jokes apart…..customers will be happy…they can buy the things at least 100% less price whole year…and inflation bound to come to bottom….
Can have a range of price like farmers can't sell the price more than Rs X per kg and less than Rs Y kg depending on off and on seasons... so it that way black marketing also can be checked to some extents...
It might change the scenario and a farmer’s revolution is a due then…they are the people who fed India but the most neglected one…
A policy need to be implanted..there will be time when people will have an industry based on agriculture and farmers does not have to suicide…make my words….Just need a proper planning commission…who does not plans out of the theory given by western jerks..rather by few practical people….
Good post brother ... liked it ... keep it flowing :)
ReplyDeletethanks...trying to share my thoughts on the things that are forgotten past but used to be pride of india
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