Steps for INDIAN AGRICULTURE

I am not a very good student of economics ..but its a just a try , my views ..le me know how is it :

Indian economy, which is dependent on agricultural sector, is growing slowly. Indian agriculture is not responding in the way it should, once green revolution progressed agriculture but now either it is stable at or going down. I am not going into the problems of Indian agriculture as different economists are discussing it elaborately in recent times. In this paper, I will be dealing with steps, which can be taken by government of India to enhance the Indian Agriculture. These are my own view and not copied from anywhere.

Today, the main issue regarding Indian Agriculture is of Land. Either there is uneconomical distribution of land or land is barren. When I go to my village, I find that there are lands which are barren and land on which agriculture cannot be done.  I feel that what the use of those lands is, tomorrow a corporate with a bulk of green notes will come and buy those lands from poor villagers and either built factory, storehouse or an apartment, if that area will be transformed into urban area. More will be the pollution, and most importantly, land will go waste.

I have an idea for the use of those lands. I propose a scheme for this, which I will name it as “PAID FARMING”.

What actually I mean by Paid Farming is, first I divide lands in two categories.

1.      Very small amount of Land with the marginal farmers.

2.      Barren Lands.

I.                   Now, in my view what govt. shall do is buy those lands from poor farmers and make it plain then employs laborers and farmers to plough and produce on those lands. They shall be given all the inputs and salary i.e. fixed salary on monthly basis.

II.                Those lands, which are barren, make it fertile by using compost and manures and again employ laborers and farmers and pay them.

III.             Those farmers shall be given a target for the production and they should be told that if they achieve the target they would be given incentives.

IV.             From the production, for e.g. if suppose 400 KG of Paddy was grown they should be given 10-15 KG as normal , if they achieve target then up to 20 KG.

V.                Incentive can be given in form of Loan and House, Vehicles, TV Sets or the best one their Children admission in good schools.

VI.             Government shall take all the procurement and directly sell into the market with marginal profit so that those who are looting consumers, intermediaries, corporate who are trying to take over the market shall be punished in the open competition.

VII.          It will help the farmers more because when they get Rice or Wheat at 2rs/KG or 3rs/KG, they do not participate in Farming or labor willingly, which is making people lazy and Human Resource is going into waste.

VIII.       The Disguised Unemployment in Indian Agriculture will be minimized.

IX.             Those who will run the shops of govt. will be unemployed people, so ultimately it will also help to reduce unemployment and he should paid from the sale income.

X.                Lands, which are being waste, are going come into use and a proper use.

XI.             For irrigation purposes, a WELL, should be dig in the corner and the traditional water harvesting system should be revamped.

Other Steps can be:

1.      Gober Gas Plants should be planned and built in ever panchayat not only one but also more than 3-4 plants. This will help in to gas Production and dependence on LPG will be reduced and money, which is being waste in subsidy of LPG, will be used here then the Manure, which will come out from that plant, will be pure and more and more organic farming will be promoted and done, which ultimately help the people of this country.

2.      If there will be Gober Gas Plants then People will also keep cattle’s and and problem of Cow slaughter will be resolved. The villagers will give Gober for those plants only and they should be given some amount of Manure or gas (acc. To their Choice) in return and then it should be sold out in market by govt.

3.      The Government of India waste so much of money on defense it is because India has to buy equipments from other countries. Instead of buying Govt. should invest in Research and in same way Research for agricultural Field also. Agricultural Universities should be open in different cities.  I remember my grandfather told one incident that when Dr. Rajendra Prsad was asked why people in Bihar do not join willingly into agriculture then his answer was that there is mentality i.e. “LOGWA KA KAHI” means what people will say if I will do agriculture so agricultural universities will be opened is cities  then young student will learn and research , and then they will interact and finally they will enter into agriculture , so the better minds will be in agriculture then now.