India Facing Agrarian Crisis!

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“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” was the slogan given by our second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965 at a public gathering to cheer farmers to do their best to increase the production of food grains. The former PM strongly believed that soldiers and farmers are the backbones of Indian society and the nation needs to respect them and take care of their issues. However, this memorable phrase just remained a phrase. Since 1990, the situation of farmers started devastating at a high rate. It was reported that between 1995 and 2014 approx. 2,96,438 farmers committed suicide in India due to their deteriorating condition and the situation is still not under the control. According to a news (published in TOI), Maharashtra topped the list with 4,291 suicides, followed by Karnataka with 1,569, Telangana 1,400, Madhya Pradesh 1,290, Chhattisgarh 954, Andhra Pradesh 916 and Tamil Nadu 606. Together, these seven states accounted for 87.5% of total suicides in the farming sector in the country. This rising frequency of farmers’ agitations in different parts of country and the high occurrence of farmers’ suicides are indications of a deep malaise in the sector.
It is important to understand that, the crisis has not started or end with the suicides. Farmer suicides is an extreme outcome of this situation. This agrarian crisis is not only affecting the farmer but the whole economy. Today we have reached over 1.3 billion and expected to touch 8.6 billion by 2030. The question here is: Who will feed these mouths if there is no farmer, no laborer to work on the lands!
There are diverse root causes for this alarming condition. Landless or negligible farmers do not have the assets to either purchase or rent more land or put resources to cultivate. Another factor is the high dependency on the rains. “Time matters”, a weak monsoon or even a delayed monsoon means a significant loss of output. The government ignorance/ failures are another major factor contributing to this crisis. No matter whose government is ruling, the state of farmers is not fixing. There are thousands of schemes that has been rolled out for improving this situation but there is no real effort implemented by the government, in order to end this crisis. For example, the much-hyped PM Fasal Bima Yojana had not reached even 20% of small and marginal farmers (TOI,2017). This indicates that there are huge implementation errors that requires immediate attention. The increasing population burden also adds to this. The youngs from rural India are now moving to the towns and urban areas for a great future. But there isn't much work development at any rate and they do not have what it takes required for a white-collar job. What remains is an expanding armed force of jobless, hopeless, and disappointed young fellows.

Solutions 

The agrarian emergency in India resembles a ticking time-bomb, and it's vital to correct the slip-ups which are adding to it.

Political pronouncements on agriculture need to be taken while considering the farmers.
If the administration keeps on putting industrial avarice before the ranchers' needs, matters will decline a ton. Steps ought to be taken to evacuate the brokers between the farmers and purchasers. This would guarantee cost dependability of the fundamental items and the weight of expanding cost would be facilitated on both the agriculturists and customers.
The government needs to create awareness among rural populations about new schemes and their rights. This will help to protect farmers from private moneylenders who follow highly exploitative practices. Such an effort needs to be made keeping in mind the low rates of literacy in rural areas, particularly for women—their level of awareness on technical and non-technical aspects of modern agriculture is understandably low.
The other real issue which should be illuminated is the issue of guaranteeing water to the harvests. The maxim of "more yield per drop" under the Prime Minister Agriculture Irrigation Scheme is a positive advance towards this, despite the fact that it should be executed on the ground before it can be appropriately commended.

Conclusion
 Team Fiinovation thaughts:- Agrarian emergency is a significantly more extensive situation than it is comprehended as by many of us. The rural economy is an extremely complex web connecting different professions which are directly or indirectly dependent on farming. Most of these professions, such as weaving, pottery and traditional handicrafts, are on the brink of complete collapse. It's an ideal opportunity to find a way to end this emergency. The time has come to guarantee that no farmer is pushed to the edge, since human lives matter most importantly.