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Agree with you Anshu!
industrial development is equally needed to improve the condition of farmers. Agree that India has a big population dependent on agriculture, but what is making their lives difficult is they lack proper resources and tools. many parts of India still depend on natural rain water for harvesting...what they need is proper irrigation facilities and other machinery to make their life easy and less nature dependent. and this needs investment, which will come only when we have people to invest, who are going to be the industrialists of the country. And they will invest only if they get some added benefit out if it. plus as you say these factories will also help farmers and other members of their family with added job opportunities and also the shift to cities will decline. Only subsidies and free water, electricity is not going to help. and from where is govt going to give these subsidies? who will pay for it? we the tax payers. given our total population and then the tax paying population, the burden will be more on us. second will be more debt - and then who will pay it? of course the tax payers. (i am not going to discuss black money, lets say we don't have it)
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Appy,
The condition of farmers is same since more than a decade, so i do not see either UPA 1 or UPA 2 doing much in these terms. there have been enough suicides, even if i only take the case of Maharashtra in last 10 years and then it was congress in center and state. But i wont blame the govt completely, because i have also seen reality first hand. free electricity was distributed, free water, which actually put the rest of state in deficit and they had to borrow it from Gujarat.but did this change anything for the farmers ? and when things did not change much in last 10 years per se, how do we expect them to change in 8 months?
make in India is going to help the farmers as well. the slogan is inclusive of agricultural produce as well. but for this to happen technology is needed, for which we need factories and investment and for that land is essential. giving away farm land to build a huge mall or multistory is what i can say is incorrect and complete waste, but not for a factory to set up - if it is going to help the people.
and if we talk about educating farmers on yields and crops, govt does it all the time. camps are setup where in good quality but subsidized seeds and other things are sold, so that the farmer can cultivate with low investment. also use of pesticides, irrigation methods is given. and i am saying this because my husband side is into farming and i mean proper village, ground level farming in Bihar...but in spite of all this things are not very good...because technology lacks. but thanks to full time electricity that things are now improving and they can now think of using proper machines.
I agree that we cannot turn a blind eye to agriculture, but we cannot just work on that front as well. no country can prosper just based on agriculture...you need industries and you need them to make in your country.
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