India is an agricultural country. India lives in villages. The villagers depend on agriculture. They are either farmers or workers on the agricultural fields. Ours industries and urban business also depend on agriculture. Thus, an Indian farmer truly represents India. He can be called the son of the soil.
An Indian farmer is very hard working. He is very busy throughout the year. For him there is no rest. He is engaged in tilling the soil, sowing the seeds, watering the fields, reaping and harvesting the crop and then taking it to the market to sell it. And yet he is very poor.
Moreover his needs are few and simple and yet they are not met, so when their needs are not met, at last they kill themselves rather telling committing suicide.
Farmers Kills Himself
Suicide of farmers is the result stagnation in agriculture. Suicide has become the only resort of the farmers. According to the National crime records bureau.17060 Farmers committed suicide in the country in the financial year alone.
More than 75% of the Indian population lives on agriculture. Recent globalization has changed the face of India very much. Agriculture has failed and people are on move to urban areas in search of jobs. The most prominent manifestation is the decline in the growth rate of food grains and the growing number of farmer suicides.
Let check it out causes for farmers suicide
Causes for Farmers Suicide
1)Endemic Problems
Such as Corruption ,Poor infrastructure and lack of access to fund for farmers. So what Government can do is they can allocate funds directly to go villagers rather to go corrupt politician hand.
2)Liberal import of agricultural products
The recent globalization has relaxed the import policies of the government which has resulted in liberal import. Though it has reduced prices in the market, it has affected farmers as their products have become unprofitable. They were not given any protection and they had to stop production partly or fully. The government which had to give higher price for importing did not come forward to protect the farmers in reality.
3)Lack of easy financial assistance to agriculture
Recently the lending pattern of Indian banks has drastically changed and as a result loans were not easily available for farmers. Another drawback was that the interest for the loan amount was not easily affordable. This has forced the farmers to rely on private money lender.
4)Decline in the Government investment in agricultural sector
After globalization, the government expenditure and investment in agriculture has been drastically decreased because of its policy of minimum intervention. The expenditure of the government in rural development including agriculture, irrigation, flood control, village industry, energy and transport declined from an average of 14.5% to 6%. The rate of capital formation of agriculture came down, and the agricultural growth also was much reduced affecting the lives of farmers very much.
5)Low support price for farm products
The farmers were affected from both sides, from the government side and from the market side. They were no getting remunerative price for their products. No effort was made for price stabilization.
6)Lack of food security
The public distributing system in the country is very poor aiming only at the vote bank. The poor security of food products has a very negative impact on agricultural market. India has starving. Yet food stocks are rotting in open storage places. Greedy middlemen are exploiting the situation. Hunger and malnutrition are forcing the poor Indians to despair and death.
In order to survive these poor farmers have to go for loans and other means which enslave them in further entanglements. Without any source of income how can they repay the loan amounts? They lose their hope completely. They become very desperate and have to run to the end of their life.
Farmers Day
It sounds silly. What is this farmers day? Why we have to celebrate. And is it so important?
In our nation we have different day to celebrate like Valentine day and so on.
Let see this
Valentine day - Feb 14th dedicate to lovers
Farmers day - ?
I mark questioned because. What they have done to us to celebrate them?
“Because they feed everyone in the nation”
Ø If he is not cultivating crops then government has to import food therefore it lead to Food inflation very high.
Ø If he is not dependent on agriculture then we (people) will starve for food.
So that is reason “Farmers Day celebrated on December 23rd Every year” to dedicate to all farmers in India.
Farmers Day are celebrated in the memory of Chaudhery Charan Singh, his personal life-style was simple and reflected his peasantry background. He understood problems of the farmer and did his best to help them. He was the chief formulator & implementer of the Zamindari Abolition Act. He rallied the people against landlord and moneylenders.
The present scenario of Agriculture is seldom to given due regard, though our Father of nation opined agriculture as the backbone of her nation.
So i would tell India cannot prosper until Indian farmers is poor and miserable.
