Question

Mention any four problems of Indian farmers.

Answer 1

Problems of Indian farmer :

Fragmented land holdings - Indian landholdings are so small that makes little marketable surplus. This makes them to go for subsistence agriculture and also difficult for mechanization.

Looting Middle men - Most of the farmers are left with small volume of produce. Taking them to Government mandi will be a burden as transportation costs, storage costs adds up. So they sell it to middle men at distress price. The middlemen will make it to Mandi and get lucrative prices that is often not shared with farmers.

Gamble of Monsoon - Indian Monsoon is always a gamble of Monsoon. If it's doesn't rain farmers will be worst hit of drought and famine. You might think he will be happy if it rains adequately. But the answer is NO. Because in one extreme his crop would be flooded or he would not get good price due to high supply in Market. This happens in 2017, where prices of Onion, Pulses went down due to good production after two years of below normal Monsoon. So whether rains or not rains. Farmers suffer.

Victim of its past success - Past success of Green revolution has put Agriculture sector into ‘chakravyug' of Hybrid seeds - Urea dumping farming. Farmers and Research institutions are still struggling to get out of that unsustainable - high input cost farming.