{"id":52202,"date":"2019-09-14T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T11:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=52202"},"modified":"2019-09-14T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T11:19:53","slug":"answered-agriculture-crisis-in-india-is-a-result-bad-policies-and-lack-of-market-linkages-comment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-agriculture-crisis-in-india-is-a-result-bad-policies-and-lack-of-market-linkages-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cAgriculture crisis in India is a result bad policies and lack of market linkages.\u201d Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Issue of lack of market linkages and bad policies.
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

Issue\nof lack of market linkages and bad policies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Poor Price\ndetermination: <\/strong>The producer of\nagricultural goods does not know the price at which his produce would be sold\nto the ultimate consumer. It is not something decided by the farmer. It is only\nthe intermediaries who determine the final price in marketing agricultural\ngoods.<\/li>
  2. Lack of sufficient\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.<\/li>
  3. Lack of\nTransport Facilities: <\/strong>Most of the\nvillages in India do not have proper roads. The farmers, as a result, have to\nrely mainly on bullock carts and such other conventional mode to transport\ntheir agricultural goods. The bullock carts can take the product only up to a\nlimited area. During lack of transport facilities the farmer is unable to take\nhis produce to the appropriate market and is unable to receive a fair price for\nhis product.<\/li>
  4. Long\nchain of middlemen: <\/strong>Agricultural\ngoods, perhaps, have the longest chain of middlemen. There are a number of\nintermediaries in the market like the wholesalers, brokers, commission agents,\nretailers and so on. As it passes through each individual, the price increases.\nThe high price paid by the consumer does not reach the grower. It is pocketed\nonly by the market intermediaries.<\/li>
  5. Lack of\nMarket Information: <\/strong>The poor and\nilliterate farmers have no access to methods of gathering information about the\nmarket for their agricultural goods.<\/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.<\/li>
  7. Defective\nWeights and Scales: <\/strong>One of the\nbiggest defects of agricultural marketing arises due to weights and scales.\nUsually, in rural areas bricks, etc. are used as weights and in urban markets\nalso defective weights are found. Thus, the grain of the farmer is weighed by a\nheavier weight for their own gain. Most of the traders keep separate weights\nfor purchase and sale of grain.<\/li>
  8. Lack of\nOrganised Marketing System:<\/strong> The\nagricultural marketing is also very defective in India because of absence of\norganised marketing. As a result, the farmer remains entangled In exploitation.\nThe farmer sells his product personally to different people. The middle take\nfull advantage of the unorganised farmers.<\/li>
  9. Corrupt\nPolicies of the \u2018Mandis\u2019:<\/strong> Middlemen\nand the traders jointly make the innocent farmers fool. There are corrupt\npractices in the mandis. The farmers are paid low price, as they lack\nappropriate knowledge about market prices, their fluctuations, government\npolicies etc. Thus, by keeping the rates secret, the farmers are cheated.<\/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. Issue of lack of market linkages and bad policies. 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 to market bottlenecks.… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cAgriculture crisis in India is a result bad policies and lack of market linkages.\u201d Comment.<\/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-52202","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\/52202","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=52202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52202\/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=52202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}