This is getting interesting... nothing to do with farmer's plight! There's a lot more revelations coming out... & I smell a rat here...
Its a stinking rat for sure. Check the suicide note, see how the name is corrected - Upendra to Gajendra. Who makes such a mistake?
There is no reason for BJP to be on the defensive! They should throw caution to the wind & get the bill passed by hook or crook in this session. Afterall it's RG who is leading the charge.. & he is bound embarrass himself sooner or later! In-fact all unpopular legislations should be seen through within the first two years of the new govt. Popular & appeasement measures can be kept for opportunistic period.
It was the lutyen coterie of BJP to be blamed. They could have easily skipped that through then..'cuase it was never an election issue! No party was going to get any mileage... & it's not going to happen this time either!
I don't know, I wasn't there at the rally, I don't know the height of the tree, I don't know if the farmer had proclaimed this in advance, or if he had a sign hanging on his head, or he telepathically drilled his thoughts in arvinds head, You are the one who is saying it's arvind's fault to not being able to stop it.
............ is that what you call free market ? 
Industries and farming are indeed mutually exclusive. People can't do farming and work in industry at the same time. Agri products are out of free market purview. So how much EU or US are giving in subsidy doesn't matter. About every EU farmer getting 8 lakh (that is more like 7 now), how much did Indian farmer get? what was total subsidy burden of NAREGA itself? including free power, free this, free that?? Conversion of farm land to industry has nothing to do with free "market".. if one can't farm, they can sell it to one who can. And who said farm land can't be turned into industry? there are certain procedure to do that which needs to be followed, which happens all the time. Even industries have land use restrictions and can't be converted to other type without going through bureaucracy.. In the same way if you want to convert housing land to commercial... so every one has some restriction and farmers aren't unduly burdened. "access to capital", they already have. that is why they took loan (hence loan-waiver scheme). Now what happens if they don't pay back? Heck, we as farmers get 1 lakh per year at 4% flat interest. I mean, who else can get that much low interest rate? "provide good price"? what is good price? who decides that? already the MSP being given is way about market price.. "fair price" can go only lower. Current farmers can now only become daily wagers because they do not have any skills and industrial type work is not enough, why? because there are no infrastructural investment by the govt due to all subsidies being given (not only to farmers, but to middle class people as well) and on the top of it over taxation on the meager tax payers to rise that subsidy. Now it is chicken and egg situation. Only solution is to gradually reduce subsidies and simultaneously invest in infra, edu and industries... rising subsidy is not an option at all...You are mixing the issue. Industrialization is a separate topic. I am talking about Farmer and Farming. How to ake them sustainable and profitable and possibly enjoyable.
Those who wants to build industries, let them do so. Why does that sneak in during a debate about farmers ? are they mutually exclusive ?
The market rate is artificially rigged. The preservation of developed countries’ agricultural subsidies has often resulted in ‘dumping’ of surpluses in developing countries, again undercutting local producers. This DUMPED surpluses do not represent true MARKET RATE.
Do you really think the farmer in France or Germany can produce food cheaper than the farmer in poorer countries? How is that even possible ?
Subsidy to Farmers and Fishermen constitute 40% of EU budget
Every farm in EU got a subsidy of Euro 11,500 in 2014. That is nearly Rs. 8 Lakh to every farmer.
If you want Free market, remove the restrictions on the farmer to convert his farm land into non agriculture land. You destroy his FREEDOM and then talk about Free market in the same tone. What kind of elitist attitude is this ? Hypocrisy much ?
Don't give loan waivers, give access to capital.
Don't waive income tax, provide good price for produce.
Don't give subsidy, give fair price for produce.
The govt. does not do that for a reason. they cannot AFFORD to do that. It is easier and cheaper to pretending giving hand outs and exploit the farmers.
North Korea has the lowest suicide rate in the world. That does not make NK a great place to live.
suicide is one of the symptom. There are many others. Question is given a choice, who how many would choose to be a farmer ? its the last choice for those without any real choices. Just above becoming a landless labourer and working in a construction site of a brick klink.
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No, we have mastered the art of storing food for rats and rot while having the largest number of malnourished children in the world. Largest number of people who eat once or twice a day.
Let all Indians eat 3 meals a day and let all children go to school and have enough nourishment. Then let us calculate how much surplus food we have.
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That is a best case scenario.
