Just as farmers are feeding us, the tax paying public is feeding the farmers too.Subsidy on seeds,fertilizer,farm equipment,electricity,water are all paid from taxpayer money. MSP which is often artificially high is also funded by taxpayer. No income tax. Regular loan write offs
Yet most small farmers remain pitiably poor. Why?The solution cannot be more of the same,more subsidy or artificially high MSP. Romanticizing the poverty of the Indian farmer must stop. Farmers are not doing society a favor.They are trying to eke out a living the best they can
No farmer wants to be poor.73 years after Independence if most farmers want to quit,given the chance,we need to ask why.Have our policies,ostensibly for their benefit, failed to help? If the present system is doing great why are so many of them killing themselves each year?
Surely there must be a better way of helping them do well.That is why agricultural reforms are important.Few reforms have succeeded without resistance from entrenched/vested interests keen on status quo.The Green revolution was opposed by some political parties.
The new #FarmLaws are a significant move away from the status quo.Some of them are the same laws that parties like the Congress too promised.This is also the first whiff of liberalization we have seen from the Modi Govt in 7 years. It must be given a chance. #FarmersProtests
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