Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Agriculture industry and Farmer suicide : What should be done ?

Just collecting some point for the discussion and really knowing the problem and what can be the solution for that...   Do not just want to throw up some stupid arguments when I discuss this serious issue... Most of us just see one side.... relating land acquisition etc with farmer suicide.. is it really linked because farmer have been dying anyway till now... what are the real reasons... ?  Will keep updating this post...


Infrastructure -
Electricity
    
How to tackle
                1) Make the cuts same in Cities and villages -
                        Does it mean same cost also ? coz most of the villages have highly subsidized Elec and Have seen misuse of that.
                        We definitely do not want to loose business/industries. 
                2) Have mechanism of saving elec..
                        Advertise
                        Encourage LED etc etc.. (Even in villages. Have noticed in villages in UP people have full power Bulbs and do not care switching it off coz it's free anyways)
                3) Increase elec generation :
                        Nuclear power plant
                        Coal
                        Natural ( Wind / Solar)  - Tamilnadu, Gujrat leading     followed by Karnataka, MP, UP (still very less though)
                        
Markets
                 Provide better markets for sale.


Irrigation
                 Too much dependency on weather/Rain
  1. Canals
  2. Better irrigation techniques
  1. Compensation/ Insurance

Displacement -
               Have other option available near by



Dependency of whole families on agriculture :
                    Land is being divided in smaller and smaller fields within family not enough for family to live on




New Jobs :
            How can we create -
                       More industries and manufacturing
                       Increase jobs in public sector
                       Education
                       Skill development
                       Encourage small industries/ Local manufacturing in rural areas
                       Health
                            Insurance

Business value:
             Cotton market is low
                       Move to other farming
                       Tree plantation with the main crop (Gujrat Model )


             Spice/coffee market is abused by European corporations
                           Increase market value of these product
                           Process within country and sale final product instead raw


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