Challenges And Opportunities For Indian Agriculture In International Context
An Indian farmer carries paddy seedlings for planting in his agricultural field. (BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Apart from issues plaguing India such as malnutrition and agricultural productivity, the farmers are now apprehensive about the entry of big corporates. How can this concern, as well as many others, be addressed?
In a pandemic-stricken world, time-bound eradication of hunger and malnutrition by 2030 in an environmentally sustainable manner is an international priority and commitment under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
India has offered to use its over-flowing granaries to tackle extreme hunger, but India can do much more and be an agricultural power too. But we are presently tapping into only a fraction of our strength.
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The economic reforms that started in 1991 are basically liberalisation and opening up to trade and commerce. However, unlike in industry and services sectors, trade and commerce in agriculture has not received sufficient attention. The recently passed Farm Laws could be the 1991 moment for agriculture.
Improved productivity alone does not mean prosperity to farmers. It calls for remunerative price as well. Food production has increased significantly (50 Million Tonnes in 1950 to nearly 300 MT in 2019), mouths to feed increased manyfold (38 crores in 1950 to 135 crore in 2019), prices of all other consumer goods has been steadily going up and so is the cost of agricultural inputs. What remained depressed is the price the farmer gets for his produce. Shrinking net profit for the producer, despite increasing productivity and production, is an anomaly the farmer faces. There is no net surplus in the hands to reinvest. This perpetually losing enterpr
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Velliangiri Uzhavan Farmer Producer Company Ltd. that recently won the ‘Best Performing Farmer Producer Company-Governance’ award said the coming together of farmers had helped its members as well as others. The company received the award from Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami at the Republic Day function held in Chennai.
The company’s chairman D. Kumar said that in the last eight years it had increased its turnover from ₹ 45,000 to ₹12 crore by sending vegetables, coconut and other produce to different parts of the country and abroad as well. The company had also helped farmers drip irrigate their fields, set up a vegetable sorting and grading centre in Booluvampatti and promote organic farming as well.
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