{"id":73287,"date":"2020-12-17T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=73287"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:09:08","slug":"why-green-revolution-states-should-shift-from-msp-crops-to-high-value-crops-and-non-farm-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-green-revolution-states-should-shift-from-msp-crops-to-high-value-crops-and-non-farm-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why green revolution states should shift from MSP crops to high value crops and Non-farm activities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/punjab-haryana-need-to-look-beyond-msp-crops\/article33339838.ece\">Click Here<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Green Revolution states are required to shift their focus from MSP crops to high-value crops and Non-farm activities due to the consequences<\/p>\n<p>Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh were early adopters and major beneficiaries of Green Revolution technology and enabled India in becoming a nation close to self-sufficiency in food in just 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>How green revolution states benefitted from the MSP system?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Due to the following factors, the share of rice and wheat in the total cropped area rose from 48% in Punjab and 29% in Haryana in the early 1970s to 84% and 60%, respectively in recent years;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, farmers were insulated against any price and market risk due to the Government procurement of marketed surplus of paddy (rice) and wheat\u00a0at MSP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, the best resources were allocated for <strong>technological advancement<\/strong> for rice and wheat crops by public sector agriculture research and development\u00a0for technological advantage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third,<\/strong> free power, and fertilizer subsidy together with MSP resulted in <strong>higher income per unit area <\/strong>from wheat and paddy cultivation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above factors made the cultivation of Paddy and Wheat beneficial in terms of productivity, income, price, Land-labour ratio, and yield risk, and ease of cultivation among all the field crops (cereals, pulses, oilseeds).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Then, why green revolution states must shift to Non-farm activities?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since the Mid-1980s, many reports and policy documents started suggesting the following serious consequences of the continuation of the rice-wheat crop system in general and paddy cultivation in particular;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On the demand side<\/strong>, Per capita intake of rice and wheat is declining in India and consumers\u2019 preference is shifting towards other foods. For ex; average spending by urban consumers is more on beverages and spices than on all cereals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the supply side<\/strong>, rice production is rising at the rate of 14% per year in Madhya Pradesh, 10% in Jharkhand, and 7% in Bihar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the government procurement side<\/strong>, Rice and wheat procurement in the country has more than doubled after 2006-07 and buffer stocks have expanded to an all-time high, with fewer options available to dispose of such large stocks. It is putting a heavy burden on the government exchequer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the farmer\u2019s side,<\/strong> More than 50 Years of the MSP system has affected the entrepreneurial skills of farmers required to sell the produce in a demand-supply based market system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the resources side<\/strong>, paddy cultivation and availability of free power for pumping out groundwater for irrigation, has resulted in the drastic decline of the water table in 84% of observation wells in Punjab and 75% in Haryana. At this pace, both these states might run out of groundwater in a few years. Stubble burning is also a consequence of this system.<\/li>\n<li>At present, most of the farm work in green revolution states is being undertaken by migrant labor <strong>as the younger generation is not willing to do manual work<\/strong> and looking for better paying salaried jobs in non-farm occupations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the above-listed factors do not favour an increase in MSP, which is demanded every year by farmers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>How to shift to non-farm activities?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government in these states must facilitate the private investment in a large number of area-specific enterprises tailored to State specificities by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promotion of food processing in formal and informal sectors;<\/li>\n<li>A big push to post-harvest value addition and modern value chains;<\/li>\n<li>A network of agro- and agri-input industries;<\/li>\n<li>Setting up high-tech agriculture;<\/li>\n<li>A direct link of production and producers to consumers without involving intermediaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides agriculture-based industries, State needs large-scale private investments in modern industry, services, and commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the demand of time is that these traditional Green Revolution States of Punjab and Haryana should focus on innovative development strategy in agriculture and non-agriculture to develop a better future for the farmers and aspiring youth of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source \u2013 Click Here Context: Green Revolution states are required to shift their focus from MSP crops to high-value crops and Non-farm activities due to the consequences Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh were early adopters and major beneficiaries of Green Revolution technology and enabled India in becoming a nation close to self-sufficiency in food&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-green-revolution-states-should-shift-from-msp-crops-to-high-value-crops-and-non-farm-activities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why green revolution states should shift from MSP crops to high value crops and Non-farm activities?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":73296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230],"tags":[1285,1314],"class_list":["post-73287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","tag-agri_0","tag-agri_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Need-for-a-shift-from-MSP-crops-to-high-value-crops-and-Non-farm-activities.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704915422},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73287","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\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}