{"id":51917,"date":"2019-09-05T17:41:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51917"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:11:47","slug":"answered-farm-sector-is-stuck-in-a-situation-of-low-income-trap-from-a-long-time-discuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-farm-sector-is-stuck-in-a-situation-of-low-income-trap-from-a-long-time-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cFarm sector is stuck in a situation of low income trap from a long time.\u201d Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Issue of low income of farmers. Solutions to remove these issues.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Most of Indian policy in response to agrarian distress is based on providing subsidy or post failure reliefs in term if loan waivers. Due to continued failure and acute agrarian distress farmers face continued debt and low income trap. Low income trap is a condition in which farmers are mired in continuous cycle of low income and debts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue\nof low income of farmers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Measures such as\nloan waivers, free or subsidised fertilisers, water, seeds and electricity,\nwhich many state governments have resorted to in the past do not help poor\nfarmers to overcome their financial problems on a permanent basis.<\/li>
  2. In India, farmers\nare poor due to low productivity (yield per hectare) of all major crops. <\/li>
  3. The recent\ngovernment policies like neem coated urea have led to distortions in prices and\nhence in the use of nutrients. This led to burden on farmers.<\/li>
  4. The rising  input costs has put enormous pressure on Indian\nfarmers especially small scale farmers.<\/li>
  5. Lack of formal bank\nloans to most farmers, especially the small marginalised landholders and tenant\nfarmers led to farmers exploitation in the hands of money lenders, thereby leading\nhuge debt on farmers.<\/li>
  6. Falling MSPs,\nleakage and wastage in transit, fluctuating prices because of global\nimports-exports, lack of cold storage and adequate food processing, etc. has\nonly increases the cost of agriculture and low income profits to farmers.<\/li>
  7. Decreasing size of\nfarm lands with successive generations, global warming leading to uncertain\nweather, sustained drought in over two-thirds of rain-fed agriculture lands,\npower scarcity has reduced production and hence low income.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How\nfarmer\u2019s income can be raised?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Government\u2019s policy\nof integrated nutrient management to increase productivity should be\nimplemented effectively.<\/li>
    2. Efforts are needed\nto bring more and more cultivable area under micro-irrigation (drip\/sprinkler\nirrigation), which would greatly reduce consumption of water while increasing\nproductivity. <\/li>
    3. Agricultural\nextension services need strengthening, to impart new scientific knowledge to\nfarmers. This should be facilitated through noted NGOs and companies in\nagro-business. <\/li>
    4. Each district\nshould have 2-3 centres where farmers can meet and exchange knowledge on\nmatters of crop insurance, banking and supply of inputs etc. These centres\nshould assist them to integrate with eNAM for getting better price of their\nproduce.<\/li>
    5. We need to create\ncentres of excellence in our agricultural universities for preparing\nregion-wise strategies to raise crop yield.<\/li>
    6. The report of the Swaminathan\ncommittee on Doubling of Farmers\u2019 Income, need to be implemented expeditiously.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Farmers are in low income trap and need policy measures. Linking procurement to minimum wage, general inflation and the overall quality of living index, and freeing the farmer of loan and investment burdens, will enable elimination of agrarian distress. These measures will help achieve this faster than all the well-intentioned government policies supposed to benefit the farmers all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Issue of low income of farmers. Solutions to remove these issues. Conclusion. Way forward. Most of Indian policy in response to agrarian distress is based on providing subsidy or post failure reliefs in term if loan waivers. Due to continued failure and acute agrarian distress farmers face… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cFarm sector is stuck in a situation of low income trap from a long time.\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-51917","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\/51917","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=51917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51917\/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=51917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}