Agriculture in India | Part 5 | Famers of India

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 deals with foreign countries to create opportunities for exports of farm products.

· The government should promote value addition to farm products and thus increase employment in the value chains and reduce losses of farm produce thereby reducing cost of farm products.

· The state governments should encourage aggregation of farm lands and creation of value chains, thereby increasing efficiency in farming, increasing production, reducing costs, improving quality and making India’s agriculture products globally competitive. Amul can be taken as an example of creating cooperatives in farming.

· The state governments should wean away the farmers from growing wheat and rice and increase production of oil seeds and high protein products by offering suitable incentives.

· The state governments should increase establishment of industries, particularly in Punjab, Bihar and UP to create employment opportunities for the disguised employment in farming.

· All forms of subsidies should be removed gradually and replaced by direct transfer of money to the farmers.

Final Words

There is no short term solution to the problems of farming. India has already suffered under the hands of the present government in seeking quick solutions. There is a need to talk and resolve issues and come up with a strategy to implement the ideas suggested above and more in the true spirit of democratic federalism. I will repeat again that government does not have all the wisdom and all the protesting farmers are not stupid. It is better to deliberate and move ahead in a cooperative manner. The government and farmers should not look at winning or losing the both should come together to Make India Win.

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