Sunday, May 13, 2012

Our Farmers

Everybody knows that farmer produces food grain what they take as food. Everybody should understand that farmer not only gives us food he also  supplie oxygen from his plants/crops. He plays a role to make rain by transpiration from his plants. He only gets a little money for his food. But what about the oxygen and rains made by him.


Indian Agricultural Sector has many challenge on its field. Brilliant Brains of India don't involve them in this sector as it is not so worthy to them. Larger percentage of Indian farmers have less land and are basically illiterate or less educated -these are the obstacles to understand and apply the technology. Moreover the Government Subsidies don't reach to themselves as the larger part of the subsidies are theft by the middlemen or bought by the rich farmers. Due to gambling on monsoon and for less use of Alternative methods like Crop Rotation have made it riskier whereas Crop Insurance facility to the farmers are not so wide. In the case of Irrigation, they are more dependent on Underground Water and lesser in Canal Water -which is more costly. The Infrastructure of Storing Crop, like Cold Storage are not available on every area -this is why 30% of Yearly Production of Vegetables in India are rotten. 


Unarguably every farmer needs subsidy in present political system.Subsidy can be removed provided farmers are given the opportunity to fix price for their products like others in other sectors and are allowed to export their products with out govt intervention.if every thing goes goes fine and once the product comes to market, minimum support price that is promised to the farmer is not given many times.People want all the pulses, food grains, milk, meat, eggs at a cheaper price and no one fights for the farmer who feeds billions of mouths.If oil companies go in to losses govt jumps in and increases price more than 10 to 15 times in few years and why not the same for the poor farmer?


one need to notice that Indian youth are no longer interested in doing farming. Number of youth doing farming are decreasing to a greater extent. None neither the farmers son nor the farm workers son interested nor their parents want their kids to do farming. This explains the scenario. Who is going to feed billions of mouths.As rightly said by our fromer president Sh. Abdul kalam "JAI JAWAN JAI KISAN JAI VIGYAN". Scientific measures should be implied to improve the coniditions of agriculture. Another green revolution should come in India.

A New Beginning of Hope

Uttar Pradesh is known for voting on cast lines rather than voting on development but Sahvajpur ,a village with 534 voters of Ghatampur assembly of Kanpur with voters consisting of Kurmis,Yadavs ,Koris ,Nishads boycotted voting and none of them voted .Because the one who was supported and elected in 2009 Lok Sabha Election did not show up after winning .


Another Manikpur village just 7 Km from Etawah ,but electricity is not there till now ,while surrounded with villages glittering with electric bulbs so this village of 434 voters boycotted the assembly election and none of them voted.One Beri, a Hamirpur constituency village kept itself away from votes this time as it has no connecting pucca road .This village of 3300 voters also didn't see a single vote being cast.


Jamalpur village's 1900 voters boycotted the polls as they were not given compensation by the government for the 100 acres of land acquired for the dam in 1980's and still didn't received a single penny .


Above cases should be an eye opener for the people sitting in the Parliament of India . People have started using polls as a weapon and if the government or the bureaucrats does not listen and give the right full dues to the common man than he will slam by not  voting .This might be a beginning this time only Uttar Pradesh and next might be the whole country and if the situations does not improve it could be regular feature and the corrupt ones can be brought 
to books soon this way .This shall be taken as a wake up call.