I was talking about labourers who work on other's farms. Say, a guy from UP working in a Punjabi farm. These people aren't that poor.
Sorry but they wouldn't have gold if they had to migrate to other states to work as laborers. They would have set up some small business like a kirana shop in their village / town / state.
Farmers with small land holdings will have a problem making enough money. That's a problem of overpopulation and land fragmentation.
I agree.
The basic problem is - we don't need that many farmers.
I agree.
What can the government do for them aside from diverting tax money which could have been better utilised?
Let's hear your solution. Who do you want to be taxed more to fund your largesse?
What I am proposing is :
1. In older / present cities and towns, Urban Farms and 5-storey automated Vertical Farms need to be set up at neighborhood-level and most of the residents should be trained in the farm operations. These farms should be operated on collective lines and maintained on turn-by-turn basis. This way a lot of pollution can be removed from the ecosystem because a city or town will be mostly self-sufficient in food crops and food stuff and need not import them from other towns and villages.
2. Rural areas need to be urbanised. A town needs to be built and the residents of say ten villages should be transferred to the town. Again, at neighborhood-level, Urban Farms and 5-storey Vertical Farms need to be created and many of the residents need to be trained in automated farm operations in the Vertical Farms. These farms should be operated on collective lines and maintained on turn-by-turn basis. The town can also contain other industries. The side effect here is that regressive village life is removed and cosmopolitan city life is adopted.
3. Technologies like drip irrigation and large-diameter water pipelines ( like in pre-2011 Libya ) should be adopted.
This way there will be no professional farmers who are burdened to carry out a difficult profession. What agriculture in India ( and elsewhere ) requires is a radical reform. In Venezuela, Urban Farming is being implemented, and in USA there are Urban Farming experiments.
What we need is a scientific approach in the field of agriculture.
It makes much more sense rather than pressing for govt to force others to do so by barrel of the gun essentially.
Not every revolution happens via a gun barrel. For example, the Libyan September the 1st Revolution in 1969.
Charity is genuine and full democratic expression of free will. Do you want to part with what belongs to you....by giving it to another...for nothing in return? Morally and ethically, only free will satisfies such an exchange.
This morning two young men came to my house, asking for donation for a children's cause and all. They said they don't accept cash, they accept online transfer and they had an ID card. Though I wanted to contribute I had to tell them that I don't have the money to do so.
These youth will never never be able to help every needy child because as I said earlier, charity can only do so much.
That is why I say that things like education and medical care should be the duty of a welfare-based system.
Movements like I said can blab and do whatever they want to as long as its within the law.
I again ask you to join the Occupy movement and participate while being well within law.
