Soumitra
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And then there are people like @jamahir who romanticize farmersIn Pakistan, Govt gives subsidy on fertilizers, buy crops to increase prices, almost zero tax, subsidy to give loans, now starting insurance following india, subsidized electricity for tube well in some areas, interest free loans for water distribution system and still growth rate of crops is falling.
My father is cultivating 13 acres of land sitting 250km away in another city having just one part time worker. Still earn enough profit. Now imagine our 90% farmers are cultivating land below 20 acres. Farming is excessive wastage of human resources.
Indo-pak needs to follow China model. Listen Arvind Subramaryum on this topic on YouTube. You will learn how much farming cost us.
Farming can be big business and earning opportunity with all the tax breaks and subsidies and private companies lining up to buy the produce (McDonald's has contract farming for potatoes, ITC for wheat). But all that will happen when 20 people don't till 1 acre of land