Tag: agriculture

The farmers in India are the anndaata of this country and they need to be given their due so that no one sleeps hungry in this nation.
Problem: The farmers can’t sell their crops directly to the consumers and the consumers can’t get the food grains directly. This results in the middlemen pocketing large percentage of the profit.
It is a must that the farmers should get most of the profit if farming has to be promoted.
The problem is lack of system to store the food grains and ways to reduce the no of intermediaries.
Can their be a way that consumers can pay the farmers directly for the crops and in turn are assured of a price accepted by farmers as well as the consumers. The farmer is paid some pertion of the amount during sewing of crops and then balance amount during supply to the consumers. In case of loss of crops due to natural calamity the burden is shared by the consumer as well as the farmer thus helping the farmer to tide over the situation.
This system is very complex like how do we pay the farmers when we don’t know from whose farms we will get the food grains. This can probably be dine by the government by accepting the money from people ready to support farmers in a central fund or bank and then paying the farmers as per the amount of crops supplied by them. This way farmers and consumers can benefit equally without any middleman getting the profit. The government will fix the price of the crops and the amount received in the central fund will be distributed to all farmers as a bonus. Government can give tax rebate to the people contributing for the farmers fund.
People spend a lot on other products derived after food processing and are ready to pay any amount for these items. The raw material is procured from the farmers by these industries and the finished product is sold to the consumers at a higher rates.since private companies are involved, biggest share of profit is made by the industry. Here also the industry should be given tax break on the amount contributed by them in the farmers fund.
Comparison of rates:
Soap 100 gm 30 rs
1 kg soap 300 rs per kg
Aashirwad flour 300 /10kg
Rice 30 to 50 rs per kg
www.farmer.gov.in/mspstatements.html
Paddy (rice) 14 to15 per kg
Wheat 14 to 15 per kg