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Agriculture in India | Part 5 | Famers of India

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Recommended Solutions · The government should accept the demand of the farmers and repeal the recently enacted three farm laws. · State governments should lay down the MSP for most of the crops and it should be determined considering the cost of production as also the domestic and international prices. · The central government should avoid legislation on agriculture. Agriculture policies should be left to the states. · As stated in the beginning the solution to the problem of farming lies outside farming. The government should encourage the manufacturing sector and attract FDI. As this sector increases automatically poor farmers will be attracted to shift to it in the next 5-6 years. The present time is not right to destroy the existing agriculture system because it may result in increased unemployment and poverty. The examples of MP and Bihar indicate this likelihood and provide evidence that the farmers’ apprehensions are not unfounded. · The government should enter into trade d
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Agriculture in India | Part 4 | Farmers in India

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  Problems of Agriculture/Policies · India is food surplus, thus domestic demand is less than the supply and hence getting the right price for the crops produced is always a problem. · 44% of the farming population contributes to only 15% of the GDP. Thus majority of the farmers are poor everywhere, including in Punjab and Haryana . · Farm sizes need to be increased to improve efficiency. · Not more than 15% of the population is required for agriculture. Thus approximately 30% of the population needs to be shifted to manufacturing and services sectors. With the current high unemployment rate and “Make in India” being only a slogan like most of the present government ’s promises there is no scope for absorbing this population.   · India cannot sustain grain stocks of 97 million metric tonnes, which is substantially more than double the buffer stock requirement of 41.2 million tonnes. · Food exports are very limited. Indian food products may find it difficult to meet the international
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Agriculture in India | Part 3 | Farmers in India

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  · Jafar is a farmer from Meerut where he owns four bigha land in his village in Sardhana tehsil. He grows wheat and sugarcane on his land but lack of an organised mandi is a big factor. He says, “Only Rs 800-1,000 is what we get from our baniya. When we bring the same to Karnal mandi in Haryana after crossing the border , we get a better price. But the transport cost is high, so I have no option but to work as a labourer in Karnal. If I had two acres of land here, then I would have been a landlord too”.   · Small land owning farmers of Bihar work as labourers in farms in Punjab and Haryana .   · One acre of land utilized to establish a factory would generate more employment and GDP than growing rice/wheat.   · India can reduce farm land and population engaged in farming and yet increase quantity and quality of production.   · Only 10% of food in India is processed. This too is mostly primary processing like pasteurised milk. India has high tax on food processing. Major investm
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Agriculture in India | Part 2 | Farmers in India

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  · Farming in India is too diverse to be controlled through central policies and letting the subject be controlled by states is quite sensible. Very rightly agriculture was designated as a state subject by the framers of the Constitution . · NHFS Survey has shown that eighteen of the 22 states and UTs recorded a rise in the percentage of children under five years of age who are stunted, wasted and underweight compared with 2015-16, reversing decades of gains. There is also a rise in obesity. These figures are in consonance with the fall in GDP since demonetization and indicate the inability of the poor to get the required protein and minerals in their diet.   · Only 6% of farmers benefit from MSP but in Haryana and Punjab, where the vast majority of the procurement of wheat and rice happens, farmers are much more dependent. For example, 95-98% of Punjab’s wheat and paddy are procured at MSP prices.   · Deflation in farmers’ earning has been maximum since 2014. Promise of the governm
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Agriculture in India | Part 1 | Farmers of India

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Most developed economies go through a period where the population dependent on farming reduces and manufacturing grows, absorbing labour. In India , the manufacturing sector has not been able to create much employment. India entirely skipped this particular stage of economic evolution. India developed the services sector, most notably the IT sector, which by design can only absorb a miniscule segment of the country ’s burgeoning population. Though technology contributes as much as 8 percent of the country’s GDP, it employs a mere 3.9 million people. Consequently, farm employment is expected to remain a mainstay in terms of employment for decades. Indian economy has been derailed by poor policies in recent times and went into recession owing to the harsh lockdown. In this scenario farming has provided a much-needed buffer to those who have had to return to their villages . Preserving the agricultural sector, even as it fails to deliver high incomes, has been an entirely understandab
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Global Gender Gap

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The world economic forum’s Global Gender Gap had ranked India at 149 out of 153 nation s  on economic participation and opportunities.  The same forum had also stated if women participation increases then our GDP will rise substantially.  Even this is pragmatic as if half our population does not work then how our country could achieve great heights . Here we analyze some of the major hurdles in women empowerment and suggestions to that . Dowry : “ Ladki paraya dhan hoti hai “ This phrase means a lot in our culture . Today apparently it has seen that dowry didn’t exist but we all know that it had made its root in our culture.  It is one of the reasons that families consider girls a burden on them and poor people start collecting money from their birth for dowry. Early marriage : In our society if girls did her marriage late then it is considered bad ( don’t know why ) . Family thought it was hard to find a good bridegroom after 25 years . This early marriage brings lots of woes for
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Central Armed Police Forces | Indian Armed Forces | Indian Defence Forces | BSF | ITBP | CRPF

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  The Central Armed Police Forces ( CAPF ) refers to the uniform nomenclature of five security forces in India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs . Their role is to defend the national interest mainly against internal threats. They are the Border Security Force ( BSF ), Central Reserve Police Force ( CRPF ), Central Industrial Security Force ( CISF ), Indo-Tibetan Border Police ( ITBP ), Sashastra Seema Bal ( SSB ). Central Armed Police Forces are organized with the primary role of border guarding for BSF , ITBP , SSB  & Security of sensitive establishments by CISF , Assisting Police to tackle Law & Order, Counter-Terrorist Operations, Counter Naxal Operations by CRPF , NSG . Apart from the primary role, all CAPFs are involved in assisting Police in Law & Order situations and also Army in Counter-Terrorist Operations. BSF & CRPF have assisted the army during external aggression in the past. CAPFs work along with both Army & Police in differen
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