{"id":51114,"date":"2019-08-10T17:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51114"},"modified":"2019-08-10T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:02:01","slug":"answered-doubling-income-of-indian-farmers-is-a-distant-goal-unless-markets-reforms-are-not-achieved-discuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-doubling-income-of-indian-farmers-is-a-distant-goal-unless-markets-reforms-are-not-achieved-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cDoubling income of Indian farmers is a distant goal unless markets reforms are not achieved.\u201d Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Various issues faced by farmers regarding selling products in market and solutions.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s food production has increased tremendously from just 51 million tonnes in 1950-51 to about 252 million tonnes in 2014-15. However, farm income did not grow much. This is mainly due to market bottlenecks. Higher output alone can not provide higher income to farmers unless it is well marketed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Problems in Markets that lead to reduced farmer\u2019s income:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Price\ndetermination: <\/strong>The producer of agricultural\ngoods does not know the price at which his produce would be sold to the\nultimate consumer. It is not something decided by the farmer. It is only the\nintermediaries who determine the final price in marketing agricultural goods. <\/li>
  2. Lack of\nstorage: <\/strong>Agricultural goods are\neasily perishable. Thus agricultural goods need to be stored in warehouses. The\nfarmers may not have their own storage facilities. Absence of storage forces\nthe farmers to sell their produce at the earliest. Sometimes, they sell at a\nvery low price in the market. Thus, the farmers, as the producers, get a very\nlow or even no profit.<\/strong><\/li>
  3. Lack of\nTransport Facilities: <\/strong>Most of the villages\nin India do not have proper roads. The farmers, as a result, have to rely\nmainly on bullock carts and such other conventional mode to transport their\nagricultural goods. The bullock carts can take the product only up to a limited\narea. During lack of transport facilities the farmer is unable to take his\nproduce to the appropriate market and is unable to receive a fair price for his\nproduct.<\/strong><\/li>
  4. Long chain\nof middlemen: <\/strong>Agricultural goods, perhaps,\nhave the longest chain of middlemen. There are a number of intermediaries in\nthe market like the wholesalers, brokers, commission agents, retailers and so\non. As it passes through each individual, the price increases. The high price\npaid by the consumer does not reach the grower. It is pocketed only by the\nmarket intermediaries.<\/strong><\/li>
  5. Lack of\nMarket Information: <\/strong>The poor and illiterate\nfarmers have no access to methods of gathering information about the market for\ntheir agricultural goods.<\/strong><\/li>
  6. Inelastic\ndemand: <\/strong>The demand for agricultural\ngoods is not influenced by a fall or rise in their price. Thus, the producer\nsuffer on account of fall in the price during bumper harvest.<\/strong><\/li>
  7. Defective\nWeights and Scales: <\/strong>One of the biggest defects\nof agricultural marketing arises due to weights and scales. Usually, in rural areas\nbricks, etc. are used as weights and in urban markets also defective weights\nare found. Thus, the grain of the farmer is weighed by a heavier weight for\ntheir own gain. Most of the traders keep separate weights for purchase and sale\nof grain.<\/strong><\/li>
  8. Lack of\nOrganised Marketing System: <\/strong>The agricultural\nmarketing is also very defective in India because of absence of organised\nmarketing. As a result, the farmer remains entangled In exploitation. The\nfarmer sells his product personally to different people. The middle take full\nadvantage of the unorganised farmers.<\/strong><\/li>
  9. Corrupt\nPolicies of the \u2018Mandis\u2019: <\/strong>Middlemen and the\ntraders jointly make the innocent farmers fool. There are corrupt practices in\nthe mandis. The farmers are paid low price, as they lack appropriate knowledge\nabout market prices, their fluctuations, government policies etc. Thus, by\nkeeping the rates secret, the farmers are cheated.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Agricultural marketing plays an important role in stimulating production and consumption and in accelerating the pace of economic development. The agriculture sector needs competitive and well-functioning markets for farmers to sell their produce. Thus marketing reforms are important to increase income to farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Various issues faced by farmers regarding selling products in market and solutions. Conclusion. Way forward. The country\u2019s food production has increased tremendously from just 51 million tonnes in 1950-51 to about 252 million tonnes in 2014-15. However, farm income did not grow much. This is mainly due… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cDoubling income of Indian farmers is a distant goal unless markets reforms are not achieved.\u201d Discuss.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51114","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}