{"id":30447,"date":"2018-10-26T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30447"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:37:49","slug":"read-the-distress-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/read-the-distress-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the distress signals\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/read-the-distress-signals\/article23316296.ece\"><strong>Read the distress signal<\/strong><\/a><strong>s\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reducing agrarian distress<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should be done to alleviate agrarian distress in India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Accelerating industrial growth and improving the ease of doing business: <\/strong>The biggest priority is to reduce the workforce which depends on agriculture for its livelihood. This can only be done if ample job opportunities exist outside<\/li>\n<li><strong>Banning Agricultural produce market Committees (APMCs): <\/strong>Farmer and buyer should be directly linked via elimination of middlemen. APMCs were established for that purpose but they themselves have proved to be inefficient and ineffective<\/li>\n<li><strong>Providing access to formal Credit<\/strong>: Most of the farmers do not have access to institutional credit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reforming the flawed MSP regime<\/strong>: Assured MSPs in the areas where weather conditions are suited to other crops has resulted in little incentive to diversify crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some recent positive steps taken by government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To its credit some recent initiatives of the government are laudable<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neem-coated fertilizer has reduced leakage, and direct benefit transfer to the farmer-buyer will reduce subsidy further<\/li>\n<li>Soil cards ensure appropriate matching of inputs to soil conditions<\/li>\n<li>Giving tax holiday to the farmer producer companies is also the right fiscal incentive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the distress signals\u00a0 Context Reducing agrarian distress What should be done to alleviate agrarian distress in India? Accelerating industrial growth and improving the ease of doing business: The biggest priority is to reduce the workforce which depends on agriculture for its livelihood. This can only be done if ample job opportunities exist outside Banning&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/read-the-distress-signals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read the distress signals\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704907261},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=30447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}