EMPOWERING FARMERS: A STEP TOWARDS PROSPEROUS INDIA

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India is a predominantly agriculture backed country where more than 50% of people come from agricultural occupation. After independence, many agricultural reforms such as the abolition of the Zamindari Act, Agriculture Insuranceschemes, and Agriculture farm produce market rationalizations have reduced the burden on farmers. Green revolution and fertilizer subsidy are some of the remarkable achievements of all time governance. But at the same time, an increase in farmer's suicide, massive debt on farmers due to the loss of crop as a reason for climate fury has raised financial crunch. This raises a question on agricultural governance. No doubt, the government has taken many farm reforms, but an increase in cases of suicide by farmers raises the question of sustainable policies relating to agriculture.

The government initiative to double the income of farmers is a welcome step, but what about the issue of farmers' suicide, agricultural debt, and exploitation of farmers by the market middle man and crop waste in want of good farm produce price. As an issue of crop storage, transportation suffers from the structural and institutional gap, which requires the re-modeling of agricultural laws and needs a strong institution that can remove corruption in the agricultural sector. Due to the issues mentioned above, farmers in India become scapegoat touts and mediators who take away the significant portion of farmer's yield profit to assure a fair market, transportation. The government is also trying to get out of this menace and has recently presented Farmer’s empowerment and protection of price assurance and farmers services bill 2019. But the question is, will the condition of farmers improve after this law comes in to force.

 

Following are the highlights of the Farmer’s empowerment and protection of price assurance and farmers services bill 2019

1.      It allows the farmer to produce trade inter-state in addition to APMC (Agriculture Produce Market Committee)

2.      It creates a framework for contract farming through an agreement between farmers and buyers of their products. Providing certainty to farm produce to sell will ease the farmer's sale of the crop in a time-bound manner, which will reduce crop waste due to perishing in the field.

 

If India wants to become a global power, it has to focus on agriculture and farmers by making strong agricultural and farmer’s institutional governance. By making more farmers’ friendly laws such that farmers can become economically and socially more empowered, it can create a strong nation that can feed its billion-plus population and ensure food security. Once farmers are secured, our food is also secured, which will automatically make India a self-reliant and developed nation. It is a need of an hour to make farmers right and agricultural law in coherency such that we can ensure the slogan of development given by Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri that is “JAI JAWAN JAI KISAN,” highlighting the contribution of farmers in nation-building, whole countrymen are indebted to Indian Farmers.

 

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