Should Agricultural Subsidies be stopped?
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Ab Bappa said:
(Fri, May 17, 2013 04:47:53 PM)
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As we are aware of our topic subsidies should be provided in a selective manner.
Like areas where water facilities are not available, where financial system is not reaching to poor farmers.
And India is known for agriculture but we need subsidies, other than providing subsidies we need to improve our financial system, as we know that even after providing subsidies farmers are committing suicide. There we need to improve our credit facilities as prevailing facilities are utilized by unethical person.
Therefore subsidies should be provided selectively until production reached at required optimal level. |
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Shabbir Hirani said:
(Wed, May 1, 2013 04:22:44 PM)
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According to me subsidies is necessary to be given they motivate farmers much. I have asked one of the farmer in my town he thinks that without subsidies food cannot be grown because when the farmers will get money by selling his goods in the market, almost half of the money will go in buying of seeds and maintaining their equipment. So one will lose hope and he cannot get better or a good standard of living and nowadays we see that many of the farmers is doing suicide due to failure of the crops or not having enough funds to feed their family.
Subsidies is a great source of appreciation to the farmers to perform well and live a happy life. |
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Bujji said:
(Tue, Apr 23, 2013 11:33:28 PM)
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This is a complicated topic.
As a country:
We need food security, so Govt give subsidies and fix the price of Grains to control the inflation.
If you don't give subsidies you can't fix the price, then former can sell what ever the price (supply and demand) , he can export to other countries like Cars, IT etc.
My prediction is:
Once current generation of farmers become old or unable to farm, then MNC's will kick in (Govt has no option).
First they take for lease and then they buy out, this is what happened in USA.
Once it is in MNC's hands, it is supply and demand, commodity stocks etc. |
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Pallavi Mishra said:
(Thu, Apr 11, 2013 03:44:54 PM)
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| The main problem of low productivity in India is not subsidy actually, it is the people who are mainly responsible for hampering the productivity of agriculture by grafting and ignoring the destitute farmers and giving the main profit of subsidy to corporate agricultural those are rich, which results in food inflation & suicide commitment by farmers, now many farmers are moving towards urban area so that they can live their life and can fight with hunger which ultimately brings in low productivity in agriculture, today the government is giving aid by providing large subsidy and exemption from loan up to large extent but sill the condition of farmers are deteriorating, they are still committing suicide the only reason behind is that they are not getting the aid due to corruption, so government need to take some corrective and strict action with strict punishment for those who are misusing these grants and creating impediment for the needy farmers, one thing which government should consider that make some arrangement at the level of panchayat to make them literate for farming gear and the efficient use of subsidy. |
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Altaf said:
(Sat, Apr 6, 2013 06:35:47 PM)
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| I think govt subsidies in agriculture sector should not be stopped. Let us suppose govt wants to using some new seeds which would yield much higher but the farmer is still reluctant to use it because he might think it will led him complete loss, so if govt gives him subsidy, then he had a hope if using this new kind of seeds led him loss, govt will provide him subsidies for his losses, then he uses those seeds which might give him profit, then in another year he himself would use them without any fear, in this way new polices get easily implemented. |
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Prabhash said:
(Wed, Apr 3, 2013 09:07:30 PM)
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| Subsidies for what? First and foremost we need to educate farmers: what is meaning of getting subsidies, how much these subsidies will help economically, environmentally etc. In nut shell this is a complex problem. 99% of our farmers don't take agriculture as a main occupation that's the major problem, reason is simple they don't know importance and benefit of sustainable agriculture. There are problems at grass root level. I would suggest read and study solution for these problems. We need hundreds of leaders who can work with farmers for better direction and their future for betterment of our country. |
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Devvrat said:
(Fri, Mar 22, 2013 04:03:21 PM)
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Hello I am Devvrat.
Well after going a lot of readings on this topics hers what I think of the topic.
1) As we have discussed earlier about 66% of the India's population is engaged in agriculture and you know how much it contributes to GDP ONLY 8% so this clearly indicates the people in the sector are much capable of PRODUCING MORE and subsides is definitely one of the ways to help in increasing agricultural production.
2) Now we all know we are THE SECOND largest population nation and to feed such a large number we need a large number of hands so as we are adding up an AUSTRALIA per year we also need more people to feed them BUT in contrast, whats happening the condition of farmer gets worse they either suicide or the person who hardly survive don't want to either continue himself or want to put their children in other sector for the high frustration and hardships and disparity they do face. So providing a subsidy would definitely motivate them.
3) Now we know most of us are selfish and you may think I AM NOT A FARMER what effect does the subsidy has on me >>? well subsidy also HELPS THE COMMON MAN as it helps in REGULATING PRICES of good. For EX. As one of my friends said that The price of urea which is presently 5 Rs. Maybe as high as Rs.30 without a subsidy !
4) As a whole it even help our nation to grow and give a better competition to the other countries. This is another advantage of having subsidies in agricultural sector.
Well these are the advantages now I tell you a major disadvantage,
1) When you have subsidies, corruption increases and rich farmers through malpractices takes extra subsidies more than what they deserve kicking the stomach of the poorer and poorest farmers who deserve them.
2) In some cases it may increase the dependency of farmers on the subsidies so in case its reduced or they don't get them it may affect the production very badly !
So here are MY SUGGESTION which I think are VERY APPROPRIATE for the disadvantages,
1) Thorough inspection have to be done before giving the subsidies so that the subsidies goes only to farmer who REALLY DESERVE them.
2) Stricter laws have to be made by the government for the people who are engaged in malpractices regarding subsidies so that they have a lot of fear even making a small bribe activity or any malpractice.
3) Now very IMPORTANT what suggestion I have regarding the dependency I discussed above well one step govt can take is to classify the farmers on the basis of their income, production and whether they really need subsidies. Now govt firstly have to provide EQUAL SUBSIDIES to all the farmers at the beginning now the farmers who gives you a better production in the same class under the same area or the farmer who shows THE BEST PROGRESS OR GROWTH compared to his last production must be AWARDED with a HIGHER subsidies NEXT TIME and this will be continued if he maintains his performance for the next period and if not must be transferred to other one who performs better then him. So as this help in economic prosperity of the farmer and helps in his growth there maybe a time at which they become LESS DEPENDENT on subsidies !and classification and inspection reduce the involvement of farmers who don't deserve subsidies.
4) Farmers must unite and along with the support of common must pressurize the government to design such a system so that middleman are removed who are to large extent responsible for the price hikes so that govt have farmers product on a much lower rate and with profits they earn they can further increase the subsidies for the farmer.
So in fact I would like to say that subsidies are not to be stopped in fact they have to be INCREASED not only for the progress of farmer but for the nation as whole. |
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Amit Topwal said:
(Sun, Mar 3, 2013 09:23:15 PM)
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NO, A nation also known as a agricultural state in world and where 70% of India resides in villages, there are majority of families which rely on agriculture as there primary source of income. We already see farmers committing suicide, leaving agriculture as it does not provide adequate funds for their survival in present world and if we stop subsidies it will cripple them.
We provide 5lakh cr as subsidies to corporate for industrial development but we are incapable of bringing same to farmers. Instead of starting modern green revolution we are thinking of cutting funds in agriculture.
We should first increase base price of all raw materials and further provide adequate information to farmers about seeds, soil and what is beneficial for them. |
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Sudhanshu said:
(Thu, Feb 28, 2013 10:42:49 PM)
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| Hi friends. According to me giving subsidies to farmer is very important, but you know subsidies are given for the economical development of farmers. But in India farmer make miss use of those subsidies. The main reason behind the miss use of subsidies is illiteracy. Hence farmers are illiterate they do not know how to use those subsidies for their development. Result of this farmers depends on the person who provides subsidies from the Government and those people takes bribe from the farmers against providing the subsidy. So farmers are unable to get the complete subsidies given by the government By this corruption occur. Subsidy is imp. But government Has to find the right person who really need that and also had to propose the different ideas by which a farmer make himself economically stable. And as the time goes the subsidies has to be reduced one by one. |
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Saranya said:
(Sat, Feb 9, 2013 11:20:57 AM)
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| Hi friends, in my opinion agriculture subsidies should not stop because in our country like India we have more than 6 lakhs villages. Their main occupation is agriculture. About 15% is contributed by the agriculture sector. Lot of farmers are suiciding because of the inability to repay the loan. If the subsidy is cut how can this poor people sustain and they can't produce anything. It will affect the whole economy if the food production decreases. Hence we have to depend to other countries for food. |
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Smjit said:
(Tue, Feb 5, 2013 07:42:26 PM)
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The answer is an obvious NO. We are talking about the people who are literally our saviors. Already they do suffer a lot due to the fact that there are many middle men standing before them, who would take some serious share from their hardly earned profit (just because they are illiterate and don't know how to deal with the main party).
So, now as they have a fare chance to get some help from govt, that should never be stopped.
But, only one concern at this point, govt needs to make sure there should be a proper system to hand over the money to the concerned parties directly.
And one more thing, if the money provided to the farmers become inversely proportional to the amount of land they possess, that can be the most beneficial sight one can aspire for. |
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Hrishi said:
(Fri, Feb 1, 2013 04:14:51 PM)
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Agricultural subsidies should be never stopped in India, because in total farmers of India about 80% of them are small scale land holders (less than 2 acre) and remaining are medium and large. If these are stopped then how do they sustain, how do agricultural production will increase. Now the per capital availability of food in our country is less than half of the available.
Government must support for subsidies for agricultural implements to land enrichment and providing seeds at cheaper rates to all those land holders.
Government should also examine the farmers who really eligible to it. If these conditions mis-result to rich farmer- India will never reach to developed country results rich becomes too rich poor becomes too poor. Please support from your side. |
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Chinnuak said:
(Wed, Jan 30, 2013 05:10:56 PM)
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Hello friends,
India is very well-known country for agricultural products, as a developing country everyone of us should be educated. Farmer children will use the educational benefits provided by government Should they be doing the same thing as their parents do. No, so government Providing subsidies to farmers according to the amount of production they produce to remain the same increase in production.
Hence Govt encourage the farmers to produce more and more production so that they earn more subsidies. They may be quite encouraging.
So, agricultural subsidies should never be stopped. |
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Gargi Rao said:
(Sun, Jan 13, 2013 04:41:01 PM)
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| Developed countries are granting enormous subsidies to their agriculture sector. In the USA the lobby of corn growers influenced the Government to continue with the subsidies. Countries like US and other developed nations have a plan to produce more and export more, thereby making the developing countries as dumping grounds for cheap agriculture produce. It has many implications- One the imported food grains will become cheaper in the developing countries, two- farmers in the developing countries, in the absence of farm subsidies, will not be able to compete with the imported food grain prices; three: developing countries suffer from current account deficit and balance of payments due to more imports; four: developed countries can recover the subsidy costs through export taxation, and increasing the foreign currency reserves. Therefore, in countries like India, we should increase farm subsidies from the current levels and make our farm produce more cheaper than in the developed world. |
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B.R. Meena said:
(Tue, Jan 8, 2013 10:12:43 AM)
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| Agricultural subsidies should not be stopped but it should be done in an efficient manner so that the needed farmers or poor farmers who are not financially stable can get these facilities and their situation can be improved. Government should have all the details of farmers and on the basis of that list distribution should be done. They should provide subsidies category wise. Improvement in the agricultural sector is one step towards the development of our country. |
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Renu said:
(Tue, Jan 1, 2013 09:05:09 PM)
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| If foundation is not furnished well then how can a building perfectly structured. As an agril. Economics student I think that all 3 sectors are vital for economy development and there should be a balance among the growth of these sectors. But according to trends agriculture is still far backward to the other sectors. So obviously its need extra care and nourishment because still more than 60 per cent people live in rural areas and 58 per cent population engaged in agriculture. Subsidy should provide but its channelization should be in a proper manner. |
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Himanshu said:
(Sun, Dec 9, 2012 06:06:49 PM)
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| I think agricultural subsidies should not be stopped as 70% of India's population depends on agricultural activities. And it would also increase the price of food for poor. And also very bad for the farmers as the cost of the services would increase. |
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Akash Singh said:
(Mon, Dec 3, 2012 10:55:28 PM)
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| We cannot think of stopping the agricultural subsidies because India is a developing country where more than 70% population depends on agriculture for its survival. Besides, most of the villagers are poor and illiterate. Subsidies given to them are an aid which reduce their incapability to become self-reliant. Also by giving them subsidies, government can make them satisfied and thus, motivates them to grow more and more so as to fulfill the need of hunger. When farmers get subsidies, they do their agricultural work with comparatively more diligence and thus, we get better produce. So, in our country we should not stop subsidies given to farmers. |
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Dhara Singh Meena said:
(Tue, Nov 27, 2012 11:08:04 PM)
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Hello friends,
According to my opinion agriculture subsidy should not be stopped as our agriculture contribute 15% to our GDP and 60% of total employment beside it we know that our economy is agriculture dependent and beside it 95% of farmer comes under small land holding farmer who are not able to do cultivation without subsidies. We know that agriculture input is crucial thing for cultivation of land and our farmer can not afford that much of costly input.
I think instead of stopping agriculture subsidy we should focus on.
Agriculture policy which restrict the produce within the state some state not allow to sell or buying the produce in other state which increase the cost and inflation also along with this.
To impose levied duty on essential commodities,
And monopoly condition in procurement of produce (cotton in Maharastra).
All these factor cause huge cost to farmer and less price for their produce.
Along with these farmer can not afford the costly fertilizer which is important factor to increase yield also and if govt will not provide subsidy than how farmer can produce and fulfill the consumption need of India. |
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Kumar Anupam said:
(Fri, Nov 23, 2012 03:04:27 PM)
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Country where each day farmer's are committing suicide because of their inability to pay back the loans taken, there is no reason to stop the subsidies, rather, it should be increased. But I feel these days there is a greater need to get rid of the pesticides and fertilizers based farming hence I feel that MORE SUBSIDIES to be given to farmers doing ORGANIC FARMING.
Obstacles for the farmer.
1. Indian farmers have less land and are basically illiterate or less educated.
2. Obstacles to understand and apply the technology.
3. Government Subsidies don't reach to themselves as the larger part of the subsidies are theft by the middlemen or bought by the rich farmers.
4. Gambling is done during monsoon.
5. The Infrastructure of Storing Crop, like Cold Storage is not available on every area -this is why 30% of Yearly Production of Vegetables in India are rotten.
Government should take appropriate steps to face these challenges.
Providing higher rate of subsidies to the marginal farmers and lower rate to the rich farmers.
Providing appropriate teaching of innovative methods to every farmer.
Growth of Canal and Tank Irrigation.
Low Rate Loans and Crop Insurance Facility should be provided.
The Govt should also inspect the Proper Distribution of Subsidy.
This is how the Government should meet the challenges and ensure the Farm Productivity. |
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Rajat Chaudhary said:
(Sat, Oct 27, 2012 12:05:52 AM)
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as per my opinion Government Should Give Subsidy on Agriculture but Government need to work on The channel to provide Subsidy to farmer. because the Current Channel to serve the Subsidy is not properly reach to Farmers .only 25% is reach to farmer & remaining 75 % Subsidy is Utilized By the Mediates
Large Percentage of Farmer have less land also illiterate & less Educated ,there are a lot of Obstacles to reach the Subsidy
the Another benefit of Subsidy is that Subsidy in cash basis which Generate More employment as well as increase Satisfactory level in to the beneficiary & also
At percent time Agriculture passing from a challenging way that is to providing the Food all the population which is increasing very fast. we have Limited Source( Agriculture Land),that by we need to farming with modern Agriculture technology
to adopt the Modern technology which is Very Costly for Small & marginal Farmer so they Need Financial(Subsidy) from Government
Agriculture role in Country GDP is 18% So this is the Big Nos & Also need to Boost in The way of Subsidy
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Madhumita Singh Dharra said:
(Thu, Oct 18, 2012 08:14:42 PM)
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| According to me the answer to this question is partly "yes" and partly " no"depending upon the type of farmers being talked about. Govt should give subsidies to only the small and marginal farmers who engage in agriculture for subsistence and are really in need of financial assistance to make their ends meet. On the other hands government should refrain from granting subsidies to the farmers engaged in large scale farming and those having huge amount of funds at their disposal. It's a welcome step on part of the govt, to grant subsidies to the poor farmers in order to prevent the gap between haves and have-nots from widening. |
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Sweta Verma said:
(Sat, Oct 13, 2012 03:33:02 PM)
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| In my opinion govt should give subsidy on that items which is used by all marginal/small and big farmers like seeds, fertilizers. In our country big farmers does not means that they are millionaire they are big because they have big land holdings. Govt should not give subsidy on costly technology because it leads to develop corruption and most of the time subsidy won't reached to the farmers, in India if government issue one rupee then. 25 rupees will go to the beneficent account rest. 75 rupees will kept by the people involve in that particular process. Hence in my opinion either Government should not give subsidy to the farmers or govt. Should correct all the channel and make the process transparent. The best option is instead of giving subsidy Govt. Should provide proper market for the agriculture product because agriculture is the only sector where most of the time producer are not getting 1/3 of the cost of production. So govt. Should think about to develop a such market where any farmers can sell their product at the price decided by farmers. |
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Raghuveer said:
(Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:09:56 PM)
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First of all is our government giving subsidy on necessary items what a farmer need. They are giving subsidy on seeds not on fertilizers even they give subsidy for fertilizers they are not readily available 80% goes to black market rest will be distributed to the favorable people. We Indians don't give value to our farmers try to feel the pain of a farmer, they are still doing agriculture is the reason they love it not they are getting huge profits on it.
Think what a farmer really needs and support those even a road side hotel person will feed there family with 3 meals a day which is not happening with farmers. Give them some moral support they are not asking all for free they are ready to pay if it is a valuable item which boosts their productivity, they are paying a min. of 250/- Rs to each labor and they are not able to spend 150 for their family. That is the situation of moderate and small farmers in India, still we can't hear their moaning, media to improve their ratings will go to some farmers, if media is really trying to help farmers Indian farmers will not be in this situation.
Finally subsidy is just like a smile from a child who expects at least a peppermint and the father saying wait for 5years I will give you a 5star. |
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Ganesh said:
(Sat, Sep 1, 2012 05:35:11 PM)
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In an agricultural economy like India, grant of subsidy play an important role in uplifting this sector. Most of the farmers of our country are small and marginal. Indian farmers being poor are not in a position to buy the expensive agricultural inputs like pumping sets, advanced machinery, technologically improved fertilizers, manures, high yielding seeds, tractors and many other inputs to increase their production and productivity. This in turn calls for the urgency of agricultural subsidy to be provided by the government.
As such I feel that agricultural subsidy in no way should be stopped in India. Govt should work at its best to provide farmers with credit facilities and other input facilities at a subsidized rate to enhance their production and protect the interest of the farmers so that they can get adequate commercial value of their produce. To conclude I would like to say that subsidies should be provided in a way that will protect the interest of the farmers and at the same time keep a check on the corrupt and fraudulent practices prevailing in this sector so that rich farmers and intermediaries do not take dew advantage of this facility granted by the government. |
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Bharat said:
(Sat, Aug 25, 2012 10:17:22 PM)
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| I think, subsidies is must for each and every farmer either they are rich or poor. To being a rich farmer is not a crime. If govt provide subsidies along with proper gideline to farmer. Then the food crisis in India will completely end. Also, it is a right of each and every one to eate food and by the help of agriculture subsidies food will become cheap to every it automatically help to the farmer and every people in India. |
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Poonam said:
(Tue, Aug 21, 2012 08:25:05 PM)
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| Hi Everyone, According to me agricultural subsidy could not be stopped. Approximately 70% of people are depend on agriculture. Farmers in India are very poor they couldn't buy expensive instruments to plough fields, so subsidy is must. But some farmers are very rich they are taking advantage of that so government should make the boundry by which only poor people take advantage of that. |
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Rajdip Khan said:
(Sat, Aug 18, 2012 06:57:06 PM)
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| In my opinion agreecultural subsidies should not be stopped. In India most of the farmers condition is not well. The profit from their production is not apparently much. Many time due to excessive rain or dry summer they faced much loss. And then they are unable to buy seeds. If the govt did not help them by providing the money of their new seeds for next season crops, it will be unable to turn back for them. Beside providing subsidies govt should also be concerned in the distribution system of crops from farmer to market. When a farmer produces vegetables, that will passed in many hands before market, the farmer can't directly sell the crops in market, if they could they would profit much, they sell the crops to the local agent with very few profit, then the local agent and through other people the crops finally come into market and then the price is tripple higher than the price farmer got. So if govt can stop this and make a way to directly selling in the market for farmers, then the farmers will be really helpful. |
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Yash Bansal said:
(Thu, Aug 16, 2012 09:56:17 PM)
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| For this, one needs to look into the negative effects of subsidies which are far more than the positive effects. Once received, people become dependent on the subsidies. Subsidies make the beneficiaries lethargic. Hence, subsidies are sometimes termed as sweet poison. Misuse of subsidies for political purpose is known worldwide. Subsidies support one industry at the expense of the other. When a person is given subsidy benefit, it imposes burden on some other person in the country. Malpractices have often been noticed in the administration of subsidies. |
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Aparna said:
(Sun, Aug 12, 2012 11:24:23 AM)
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In an agricultural economy like India, grant of subsidy play an important role in uplifting this sector. Most of the farmers of our country are small and marginal. Indian farmers being poor are not in a position to buy the expensive agricultural inputs like pumping sets, advanced machinery, technologically improved fertilizers, manures, high yielding seeds, tractors and many other inputs to increase their production and productivity. This in turn calls for the urgency of agricultural subsidy to be provided by the government.
As such I feel that agricultural subsidy in no way should be stopped in India. Govt should work at its best to provide farmers with credit facilities and other input facilities at a subsidized rate to enhance their production and protect the interest of the farmers so that they can get adequate commercial value of their produce. To conclude I would like to say that subsidies should be provided in a way that will protect the interest of the farmers and at the same time keep a check on the corrupt and fraudulent practices prevailing in this sector so that rich farmers and intermediaries do not take dew advantage of this facility granted by the government. |
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Ayush Jain said:
(Mon, Jul 30, 2012 09:19:07 PM)
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I think subsidies at the moment for Indian farmers is a must. But, again selective subsidies is the need of the hour. The government has to distinguish between rich and poor farmers, with benefits of subsidies reaching the deserving poor farmers. This will serve a two pronged purpose-reducing both inequalities and strain on government finances. However, the long term vision of India should be to make each farmer economically independent and to away with subsidies altogether.
Thanks to everyone for reading. |
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Harjeet said:
(Thu, Jun 28, 2012 08:27:22 PM)
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| A simple answer to this question is a big 'NO'. In a country where each day farmer's are committing suicide because of their inability to pay back the loans taken, there is no reason to stop the subsidies, rather, it should be increased. But I feel these days there is a greater need to get rid of the pesticides and fertilizers based farming hence I feel that MORE SUBSIDIES to be given to farmers doing ORGANIC FARMING, the organic produce should have more minimum support price than the pesticides based products. |
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Pramod said:
(Wed, Jun 6, 2012 08:56:44 PM)
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| As we all know India is a agriculture based country. More than 66% of population depends upon agriculture. And farmers are the only people who is taking care of our resources. So that's our duty to provide help by giving subsidies. By doing this government increase their moral and they take more interest in agriculture as its a good source of income for them. And also it directly helps our economy and we are able to keep your resources safe. |
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Swamy said:
(Sun, Jun 3, 2012 08:11:42 PM)
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| Generally, Farmers are poor but we all know that in many States there are rich Farmers who have all the luxuries of life like own bungalows, expensive cars etc. The Subsidy system does not differntiate the rich and poor. For e.g. , Fertiliser subsidy would be enjoyed by all the farmers when the poor needs it the most. If we cannot differentiate at the subsidy level, then we should certainly charge income tax on agricultural income above a certain limit, say Rs. 1, 50, 000/- progressively. This would take care of the anomaly in the system and would also protect the poor farmers. |
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Moon said:
(Thu, May 24, 2012 07:27:33 PM)
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I think the subsidies which is given to the farmers is should be distinguished well in the poor farmers and rich farmers.
I think there should be tax on the farmers because as per the income tax limits up to 180000/ there is no taxes applied. And as we know the poor Indian farmers unable to cross that limit so it will give advantage to catch rich farmers who shows there BLACK MOONEY in WHITE MONEY so those farmers will be taxable under IT ACTS.
So only with emotionally decisions we can't able to correct decision for that we have to take decision with mind. |
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Ranjit said:
(Wed, May 9, 2012 05:08:39 PM)
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| Subsidies should be given to the farmers so that we can get food. |
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Rounak Wangsu said:
(Wed, Apr 18, 2012 10:06:48 PM)
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Indian Agricultural Sector has many challenge on its field. Brilliant Brains of India don't involve them in this sector as it is not so worthy to them. Larger percentage of Indian farmers have less land and are basically illiterate or less educated -these are the obstacles to understand and apply the technology. Moreover the Government Subsidies don't reach to themselves as the larger part of the subsidies are theft by the middlemen or bought by the rich farmers. Due to gambling on monsoon and for less use of Alternative methods like Crop Rotation have made it riskier whereas Crop Insurance facility to the farmers are not so wide. In the case of Irrigation, they are more dependent on Underground Water and lesser in Canal Water -which is more costly. The Infrastructure of Storing Crop, like Cold Storage are not available on every area -this is why 30% of Yearly Production of Vegetables in India are rotten.
Marginal Farmers can't sell their product directly in the Market -this is how they run themselves in loss and gradually take steps toward suicide. Government should take appropriate steps to face these challenges- providing higher rate of subsidies to the marginal farmers and lower rate to the rich farmers; providing appropriate teaching of innovative methods to every farmer; growth of Canal and Tank Irrigation should be accelerated and a Large Chain of Cold Storage should be created and most importantly, Low Rate Loans and Crop Insurance Facility should be provided to every marginal farmer. The Govt should also Inspect the Proper Distribution of Subsidy. This is how the Government should meet the challenges and ensure the Farm Productivity beside protecting the Farmers Life. |
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Jayaram Reddy said:
(Thu, Apr 12, 2012 06:00:58 PM)
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Unarguably every farmer needs subsidy in present political system.
Subsidy can be removed provided farmers are given the opportunity to fix price for their products like others in other sectors and are allowed to export their products with out govt intervention.
We need to understand the whole lot of issues and uncertainties of farming community.
How many of us go to work when our transportation expenses are more than what we earn?
How long do we do business when the business is running in to losses?
But, farmer do not have secondary option.
Input cost for farming like pesticides, insecticides, nutrients, manure, labour charges, diesel charges, machinery charges like tractor etc. , charges for repairing water pumps all these have increased abnormally. For example male labour charge increased 3. 5x to 4x. In-spite of this availability of labour is not easy in most of the villages.
On top of this, adequate power is not available for farmers. Low/voltage issues burn motors frequently and transformer issues all these expenses goes from farmers pocket. On top of this bribe for transco guys.
If these things go well, weather may not support. Some times drought and at times heavy rains and floods.
Even if every thing goes goes fine and once the product comes to market, minimum support price that is promised to the farmer is not given many times. In the present scenario, even if the farmer gets minimum support price they will run in to losses. And this is the reason why farmers started agitation declaring crop holiday in some parts of the country and some ransacking agri markets.
People want all the pulses, food grains, milk, meat, eggs at a cheaper price and no one fights for the farmer who feeds billions of mouths.
If oil companies goes in to losses govt jumps in and increases price more than 10 to 15 times in few years and why not the same for the poor farmer?
It is true that poor people suffer if food prices go high. This does mean that the farmers have to give subsidized products to all making losses working under hot sun/rain walking between snakes and scorpions. In a way farmer is giving food security to all billionaires and poor workers investing his resources and in turn making loss for what he/she do.
Moreover, one need to notice that Indian youth are no longer interested in doing farming. Number of youth doing farming are decreasing to a greater extent. None neither the farmers son nor the farm workers son interested nor their parents want their kids to do farming. This explains the scenario. Who is going to feed billions of mouths.
Most shocking thing is that none of them either from urban or rural areas are not showing interest to elope their daugher to a young farmers even if they are holding 30 acres of land. These guyz and their families are really frustrated as they are cornered in the society.
All the above factors are forcing people to move out of agriculture. What will happen next. Corporate agriculture? If so, are the corporate going to sell products at a cheaper price? They'll give millions to those who help them in making things easier by forcing farmers out of this sector. Where do they collect these millions from?
The above facts are based on my experience and observation. |
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Basant Raut said:
(Mon, Apr 2, 2012 03:54:37 PM)
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| Everybody knows that farmer produces food grain what they take as food. Everybody should understand that farmer not only gives us food also he supplies oxygen from his plants/crops. Also he plays a role to make rain by evepo-transpiration from his plants. He only gets a little money for his food. But what about the oxygen and rains made by him. If you consider these then the farmer is cheated by the government. He has the right to get the value. Due to overburden of loan, our many farmers are suicide. Our government should waive out his loan and should give higher and higher subsidy to him. |
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Dipak said:
(Fri, Mar 30, 2012 10:10:42 PM)
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Hai friend, this is my view we all know that India is a agricultural country here most of people are depend on agriculture. Indian farmer is very poor because of indeterminate and most of people is illiterate that how to sell the aggro product. And on other side farmer use the traditional way of production because of poverty they are not capable to bye the any latest technology so production and productivity may decrease. So, the government must be help to our farmer in way of subsidies, provide the latest technology at low rate and give the knowledge about the seed.
Like use of scientific concept which kind of seed will suitable for which kind of land with verification. And for buying basic material seed, urea for that also government help them via subsidies. If our farming will improve more and more it give the low unemployment as well better rewards then other sector. |
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Alok Singh said:
(Thu, Mar 29, 2012 11:50:49 PM)
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| Population is dependent on agricuture and it needs support. However, it needs support in form of investment not as subsidy. We need to rationalize the subsidies e. G. Subsidized or free electricity only leading to the exploitation of the priceless water and leading to salinity problem to the granary belt of punjab and haryana. Better charging electricity cost and water prices can be asource of revenue which can be invested in developing irrigation facilities for all including small and marginal farmers or providing uninteruppted power supply. It need a political and administrative will in the country. |
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Virendra Meena said:
(Thu, Mar 15, 2012 06:54:09 AM)
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As I think subsidy on agricultural products is an important help for the farmers, It was allowed keeping in the mind those famers who donot have sufficietn fund for the agriculture and to make them selfdepend but now it is not giving help to those farmers for which it was made. Keeping in the mind corruption and such kind of illegal practices I can say that the benefit of subsidy is only taken by the big land lord and middle man of this system but ultimate user is helpless (poor farmers.
Thatswhy farmers are not able to grow crops well and they are going for moving for source for their livelihood. Govt should think about this matter subsidy should be provided to the poor farmers only in their A/C at the time of cultivation so that it can be used fruitfully. |
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Sanjeev said:
(Wed, Mar 14, 2012 10:15:31 PM)
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| Hi friend, India is the second largest country in the world and 70% population of India are directly or indirectly depend on agriculture. Many Indian farmers are not able for buying seeds, fartilizers etc, and we know that agriculture in India is gambling with monsoons. According to me Indian government should do the surve on farmers and make a correct list that how many farmers have requirement of subsidies. AND that farmers should must be provide subsidies for encourage farming and ecomonical condition. |
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Anish said:
(Thu, Mar 8, 2012 12:52:47 AM)
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| Major part of govt subsidies goes to fertilizers which are of two types..urea based (fixed subsidies)and potassium based(variable sub), so govt is paying huge amount of subs of fertilizers due to rise in crude oil prices. But these subs amount is going to black marketers. Overlook of middle management is needed to reduce subs govt should promote farmers in natural way. |
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Deepak.V said:
(Sat, Mar 3, 2012 02:18:05 AM)
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Subsidy should be given to some specific agricultural products which are really very critical and difficult to produce and needs some technologies and huge funds but not on every agricultural products as production of agricultural products in India is already good. But the problem lies in the distribution and storing of agricultural products and which makes them rotten in a very few days and demand exceeds the supply which should not be if India has got sufficient space to store and effective distribution chain and so prices goes up unnecessary.
So I think government should invest some money on making space to store agricultural products and making efficient way or channel to distribute it so supply exceeds the demand and India can use remaining goods for export and generate some revenue which can recoup the cost incur for this activity. |
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Shikha Shrama said:
(Sat, Feb 25, 2012 09:36:43 PM)
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India is world's 2nd most populous country with more than 121 crore of population. It could be seen as many hands to work but many stomaches to be filled. Ironically 66% of India's population is involved in agriculture & its allied activities, but agriculture contribute a mere 8% to Indian GDP. This imbalance in itself is sufficient to tell the state of Indian agriculture.
Subsidies should be provided to farmers so that they can earn there living by doing that they are good at. They should be provided with good quality of high yield seeds and fertilizers at susidized rate. But apart from providing subsidies govt should develop plans to improve the overall picture of agriculture in India.
As rightly said by our fromer president Sh. Abdul kalam JAi jawan JAi kisan JAi vigyan. Scientific measures should be implied to improve the coniditions of agriculture. Another green revolution should come in India. Research in agriculture should be motivated to make us self reliant to feed ourselves. |
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Lohit said:
(Sat, Feb 25, 2012 12:48:28 AM)
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| I think it is important that the government provides subsidies for the farmers to encourage farming. As we all know farming is not a lucrative profession in India so if the farmers are not provided with enough subsidies they may move towards other livelihood for a stable living which in turn would reduce the crop production in the country and we may not be self sufficient regarding food anymore. |
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Prashantverma said:
(Sun, Feb 19, 2012 12:08:39 AM)
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| I think so as I am Agricultural Student Subsidy can not be stopped because most of the farmers depends on it. But as my opinion government should give subsidy in cash basis which generate more employment as well as increase satisfaction level in to the beneficiaries. I agree with these point that subsidy induce the burden on government funds because this influent the liquidity in the market and after all in mid term right now inflation bears in the market. |
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Abhishek Kirti said:
(Sun, Feb 12, 2012 07:42:40 PM)
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| On my point of view agriculture take part about 60% in our gdp and 60% of the population our country depend on the agriculture, and it will continue if farmer input is less than the output and it will continue if farmer get subsidies on input product. But the subsidies should be rationalized and given to the poor farmer who need it otherwise it will be misuse by the rich farmer. |
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Ca.Manmohan Singh said:
(Sun, Feb 12, 2012 12:00:40 AM)
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| The subsidies given to farmers should not be stopped but it should rationalised. Recently in 2011 has conducted the census n govt has the data that which farmers belongs to poor class n which to rich class. Subsidies should only be given to poor farmers otherwise rich farmer who is having many acres of land takes advantage of the same against the needy farmer who barely earns his livelihood. There is a need of some independent body who could look after the rational distribution of subsidies, so that benefit actualy reaches to needy farmer n not just on papers. |
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Shivani said:
(Sat, Feb 11, 2012 07:29:37 PM)
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| Agriculture is the main source of employment for rural Indians. 60%of population is engaged in agriculture providing agricultural facilities at a subsidized may prove as an assistance to them. Subsidy is an economic benefit, direct or indirect provided by the government to local producers to strengthen their competitive position in market. The burden of providing subsidies falls directly on the govt. And govt. Has to bear the burden. There is a scope of improving the resource efficiently by reducing subsidies and aiming them better to small farmers and regions lagging behind. |
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Abhinav Kumar said:
(Sat, Feb 4, 2012 01:58:13 AM)
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Yes friend agriculture subsidy should not stop. We know food is one of th e fundamental need of human being and it comes through agriculture only. Our farmer is poor they can't access to adopt technology which can developed our production as well as productivity. I would like to give you example presently urea is available at Rs 5 only. If there won't be subsidy upon urea it cost comes around Rs 30 rupee. Is it possible for our farmer to apply urea as per recommendation. There are several cases like this. If goverment won't give subsidy then no one will adopt new technology.
All farmer will do agriculture with traditional method noone will go for modern agriculture. So how we will get yield to feed all the nation in a condition where day by day land is getting decrease and one AUSTRALIA is adding every year in our population. So it should be given to bring modernization in agriculture, to increase production, to sustain growth. |
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Anshul said:
(Sat, Jan 28, 2012 06:12:26 PM)
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| The subsidies for the farmer should reach to them who really needs it who are below poverty line not those farmers who are already enjoying a luxurious life. There should be a proper distribution of money meant for farmers. |
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Ajinkya said:
(Wed, Jan 18, 2012 11:59:29 AM)
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| Agriculture is the back bone of our country and 66% of the population depends directly or indirectly on Agriculture. Agriculture provides 19% of the GDP in our country. Agriculture in India is gambling with the monsoons. India has varied agro-climatic conditions with different soils and crops from K I appreciate your view as we know that agriculture is backbone of our country and if we stops subsidy we ultimately breaks our strongest power of our economy, farmer needs much help, they have become frustrated due to high cost of production they are committing suicide. In this condition govt should continuously help them by providing subsidy so they can purchase more useful agricultural equipment and increase their standard of living and can get more profit output. Anyakumari to Kashmir. |
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Vinaya said:
(Sat, Jan 14, 2012 09:43:12 AM)
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| Everyone knows the fact that farmers are in need of subsidies to carry on their agricultural activities. But from my point of view along with subsidy being provided to farmers the government should also motivate farmers to grow crops which are necessaries of life like ragi, paddy, jowar instead of goods which gives them high rate of profit such as arecanut. This will make our country dependent on other countries for our necessary food in the future. so government should provide subsidy in such a way that it reaches the appropriate category of farmers (BPL) & motivate them to grow necessary crops. |
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Anand.G said:
(Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:37:50 AM)
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Hello everybody, as an agriculture based student I would like to put forth the point that, now a days the monsoons and the weather conditions are unpredictable. In case of agriculture in India. Most of the agricultural lands are rainfed and less are irrigated. So the chance of failure is more in case of marginal farmers. So every body are getting fear on a profession on agriculture. So the subsidies are the only way to promote agriculture.
Because to tackle the effects of those unpredictable monsoons, we should use high initial cost and follow some advanced techniques. I could confirmly say that stopping of agricultural subsidies are impossible. |
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Amber Singhal said:
(Sat, Jan 7, 2012 10:46:17 PM)
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| Students, we all knows in India 60% people are dependent on agriculture. So we sholdn't stopped the subsidy. But in my opinion subsidy should be stopped because our farmers are used to of subsidy. This is very bad for farmers. So I suggest that government should given eduacation to farmers about agriculture as a subsidy then automatically its good for farmers. Thank you. |
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R.Rama Mohana Rao said:
(Sun, Jan 1, 2012 08:45:44 PM)
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| Agriculture is the back bone of our country and 66% of the population depends directly or indirectly on Agriculture. Agriculture provides 19% of the GDP in our country. Agriculture in India is gambling with the monsoons. India has varied agro-climatic conditions with different soils and crops from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Farmers are responsible for feeding the Crores of our population. So we must provide subsidies/continue subsidies to encourage Agriculture in India. Subsidies to be provided to needy poor farmers for increasing the agricultural production in India instead of to all farmers. |
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Manumohanan said:
(Wed, Dec 28, 2011 06:06:54 AM)
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| Friends subsidies shouldint be stoped as we are going to meet the worst years thats comng. Indian youth is running behind mncs. And they are not intrested to be in paddy or wheat field. So we are in great danger of food safety thus we have to provide subsidies to the remaining farmers and let them produce the better. And this subsidies shuld reach to the hands of pooor farmers thank you. |
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Subhashini Perumal said:
(Thu, Nov 24, 2011 08:18:53 PM)
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| As many of us know very well that agriculture is our nations strength and if there is no enough support for farmers from Government side then the sufferers are not only farmers but also the people. When we compare the work nature of farmers its different from other nature of work farmers can work only during the non rainy season. So the enough subsidies should be given to the farmers from the Government. |
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Dhamodhar said:
(Tue, Nov 22, 2011 08:54:30 PM)
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NO, I am not agree with the topic which is specifying that the agricultural subsidies be stopped. Agriculture is the backbone of our country. Before independence n after also about 73% of people of our country were engaged in agriculture only. Now also the main n very important activity in our country is agriculture. I'm with the point that the government should provide more subsidies to the poor farmers.
At the time of distribution government should have all information about the farmers. Because at the time of collecting information some rich farmers try to show their financial problem. They give wrong information to the examiners so that they can get more subsidies compare to other farmers. And by doing this they becomes more financially strong. And the farmers who are poor they do not got their part of subsidies. So I want to say that the government should not stop the agricultural subsidies but before the giving of subsidies they should check the farmers status category wise n after that only they should provide subsidies to the farmers category wise. By this poor farmers can buy seeds at lower price and they can produce more effectively. So this they can earn their livelihood more. And rich farmers do not try to get more rich by cheating the government and poor farmers also.
So there should be no stoppage in the way of agricultural subsidies. Agriculture is the 1st step of development of our country.
"THANKS", please give me your feedback to tell me whether I m wrong or rite! |
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N S Reddy said:
(Sun, Nov 20, 2011 02:14:11 AM)
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| Hi friends,Considering the current situation of agricultural sector, subsidies must not be stopped for any reason.we should remember that production of anything in this world can be left at the mercy of market forces but not food as nobody can live without it. Subsidizing agriculture helps in tackling food prices and reducing trade deficit as it improves food supply.Above all we must note that agriculture is the only sector that will be least/nil affected by economic crises. So it is very important to strenthen agricultural sector for stable and sustainable economy. Subsidies help in accomplishing it. |
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Rajeev said:
(Fri, Oct 14, 2011 09:26:01 PM)
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Hi friends.
The current topic of discussion is, Should agricultural subsidies be stopped?
And as I am an Agriculture student my idea is that the Indian agricultural sector needs subsidies and now the current situation is that our Indian agriculture is passing through a critical situation of crisis. Crisis of what? crisis of proper agricultural inputs like water, good quality seeds and fertilizers, proper management etc and the most important is attention of government towards it. Now its situation is very pathetic and no one want to join it despite of that it provides the basic needs of human being that is food.
Irregular monsoon and unfavourable weather like too hot or too cold made this profession unprofitable and now you can imagine if this sector will not get subsidies than what will happen? It will result in Suicides that is committed by our Indian farmers now a days. One time Our first Prime minister late Sri pandit Jawahar lal nehru said in his speech that "EVERYTHING ELSE CAN WAIT BUT NOT AGRICULTURE". |
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Hemant Choudhary said:
(Tue, Oct 11, 2011 02:45:58 PM)
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| Hi friends,as I'm totally do not agree that with topic stopping agriculture subsidies ,As a Lehman I think farmer is backbone of our country who really work hard for us,government should now take out some important steps or bring some technology which show reall financial position of farmers and accordingly government give subsidy which is necessary for poor famer at most. Government should also provide quarterly an agriculture exhibition with some agriculture experts which give knowledge to farmers.... THANK YOU FOR READING.... |
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Sukanta Dhar said:
(Fri, Sep 30, 2011 11:45:33 PM)
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A very large part of Indian economy is dependent upon agriculture. But unfortunately the people who feed us often remains starved. Its because they do not get proper value of their labour. But at the same time cost of foods in the market is at the peak. Then where do all the money go ? Nobody knows ! So, the government should provide them subsidy. They should also be provided good quality seeds, fertilizer, easy loans, special schemes to get instruments like tractors etc. The government should also fix a good minimum value for their products.
More innovative ideas should also be introduced to help them. It will help the country more than the facilities given to 'reservation' and yes I myself belong to OBC community. However, I am not going on this long term debate of reservation. I am just saying to help the farmers in all the possible ways just to let them live not survive. |
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V.Suresh Kumar said:
(Thu, Sep 22, 2011 03:16:22 PM)
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| Though we are in the 2nd position in population size of world, we need to empower the production of food grains and all to meet the basic needs of every human human being. What ever the development activities are taken place we cannot eat iron or sand to create energy. While we are having proper energy to work only we can create more and more. The govt should take care of farmers to prevent from the dangerous effects. |
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Nikhilesh Gupta said:
(Wed, Sep 21, 2011 05:59:44 PM)
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| India is the 2nd largest country in worlds population. As agriculture is the backbone of the country but most of the farmers are below poverty line. They cannot even afford to buy seeds, fertilizers also. So, providing subscidies to them is correct. The duty of a solider is to protect the country at the border and duty of politician is to take care of people inside the border. But today as the government is allocatng huge funds for farmers but due to these politicians those are not reachable to the poor farmers. Government also must take necessary steps in order to reach help only to the poor farmers but not for farmers who are already enjoyng luxurious lifes. |
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Shubham said:
(Thu, Sep 15, 2011 12:35:02 PM)
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Yes I think that agriclture subsidies should be stopped to a extent. Because agr'ture is an occupation which is more based on nature and not on our will. Instead we can use that capital to to make agriculture's basic necessity more efficient and bring regularity to it.
EG;-major land under cultivation must be developed by using this revenue and establishing poly house. This will increase the quality of the foodgrains. Education should be provided to farmers to be skilled in such poly houses. This will increse the employment as well as make the farmers educated.
Surely this measure can increase the export. Thus it will bring prosperity to the economy. |
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Souvik Mishra said:
(Wed, Sep 14, 2011 10:04:01 PM)
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Agricultural subsidies are like boons for the farmers in India. It helps the poor farmers to buy different seeds and fertilisers thus helping to increase the crop yield. These subsidies indirectly also helps the common man as high crop yields checks the price of various items coming from these. And in India rain is so uneven affects the yield to a large extent. There are places where famines and droughts are damaging crops and there are places where floods due to rain are damaging crops. Not only that in many places poor farmers are exploited by the rich ones and cuts the profit margins of the poor farmers. These lead to farmer suicides a number of times. In such situations subsidies are like lifelines for many farmers from which they can earn their living.
But many times these subsidies do not reach to the real needy ones. There are many who, even having high living standards, have BPL cards for which many times the subsidies do not reach to the ones who need it. It is mere responsibility of the govt to put a check on this and ensure that these subsidies are received by the ones who need it. |
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Gunasegharan said:
(Tue, Sep 13, 2011 04:37:27 PM)
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| Immaterial the farmer is rich or poor subisdy should go to all. As such we are losing our agrarian economy where in we don't find anybody to cultivate. If there is no money nobody will be interested in doing farming. |
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Sriram said:
(Wed, Aug 31, 2011 07:32:14 PM)
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| Actually Indian is no 1 in agriculture, but nowadays its going low. Agriculture part is very low and MNC companies is in peak. Without having a good agriculture products, salary providing in a MNC company does not keep us healthy. So, according to my point of view agriculture should be treated equal to MNC employees. There sholud be a separate subject for agriculture. Nowadays most of the lands are getting destroyed by building IT comapnies overthere. If this continues after some years inidia sholud beg for food products to other countries. This can't be suddenly changed by us. Our government sholud be aware what is going on in agricultural areas and they sholud take care of it. |
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Amrit said:
(Wed, Aug 31, 2011 03:15:15 AM)
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| Friends first a competent authority has to be there to issue BPL cards to people. Those who are actually not able to buy comodities at market price they only should be given subsidiesed commodities. There comes a model by the govt that the govt will transfer the defferential ammount of money (difference between market and subsidised price) directly to the people's account. I think UID card will help the govt asess actual BPL status by which proxy benificeries will be out of the system only by this subsidies for farmer will be under a good budget and will become successfull for uplifting poors status. |
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Kinjalkumar Suthar said:
(Tue, Aug 30, 2011 03:09:20 PM)
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| According to me as I have found that generally those farmers who can't afford for such needed costly accessories to cultivate the crop choose the another option to do job in the private comapany to satisfy their basic needs. So this kind of subsidies help them or motivate them to go back on their real job & earn handsome income. So agriculture subsidies should be there. |
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Vibhu Gaur said:
(Sun, Aug 14, 2011 07:24:23 PM)
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No, I am not agree with the topic. Agriculture is backbone of our country. Jai jawan jai kisan, a slogan given by former PM, L. B. Shastri, shows the importance of agriculture in our country. Government should not stop agriculture subsidies to farmers. Before giving the subsdies govt. Should get the proper information on the numbers of farmers living below poverty line. A farmer with ac, car etc can not be poor.
Govt. Should take care of thing that rich farmers should not get unnecessarly the benefit from the subsidies which are ment for poor farmers. Govt must collect the information regarding the economic status of the farmers, then it should distribute sibsidies. Norms must be set by the government so that it can categorise the rich & poor farmers.
At last I would like to say that govt. Should not be"linent, it should be Smart enough" to do justice with farmers and not let the to cheat it. |
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Kanika said:
(Mon, Aug 8, 2011 09:10:00 PM)
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Farmers borrow money from rich farmers who exploit them indiscriminantly. At this point of time it is the duty of the government to intervene and take appropriate measures realted to decreasing the problems of the farmers and I personally feel providing subsidies would be the best option. Subsidies are basically the help provided by the government to decrease the cost of the basic necessities and make them affordable or to make it free so that all the farmers can make use of the commodities. Thus, I personally feel it is important that subsidies are still providied to the farmers so that they can cultivate their land using good seeds, fertilizers, pesticides adn other necessary thing provided to them.
Another aspect that cannot be neglected is that it is mainly the rich farmers who make the most of this facility leaving majority of the other poor farmers without gaining the benefits of the technology. Thus the government should take effective measures, and segregate the rich and the poor, so that the advantage of such facilities should reach the needy and not the people who have surplus. If subsidies are provided to the targeted groups then soon the production will increase leading to, we being able to produce more and export more, resulting in more foreign exchange coming in our country. Thus I personally feel that subsidies should be continued as they would benefit the farmers of India. |
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Neha said:
(Fri, Jul 29, 2011 05:18:22 PM)
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Hi friends, as we all know agriculture is the backbone of our country. Subsidies are essential for the economic growth of the country. The government should carry out a survey of the farmers and categorize them according to their income (That must be done honestly though) and then the farmers which are actually needy the government should help them and encourage them.
What happens is the government declares subsidy for poor farmers and the well to do rich farmers are the ones which take the unnecessary advantage For eg. A couple of years back government gave free electricity to the farmers, it was seen that almost 40% of the poor farmers were not even able to afford a water pump-set on their well so the rich farmers celebrated Diwali with free electricity with their modern equipments.
So the subsidy are continued to deserved farmers.
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Nitin Agrawal said:
(Wed, Jul 27, 2011 09:05:18 PM)
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Agriculture being the top RM supplying sector in the economy has to be considered with top most privileges. Uncertain climate, Poor participants, less bargaining power, need of new technology are the reason for the subsidy in this sector. In the absence of subsidy there will be a situation of less production and applying the concept of demand-supply due to less supply of agricultural products and Raw material, the prices of final goods would increase. This will create a hardship to the final consumer and there will be situation of protest against the Government by the public at large.
So, Considering the above discussion the idea of stopping Agricultural subsidies should be dropped. |
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Amalkiran said:
(Wed, Jul 27, 2011 09:07:36 AM)
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| Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. About 70%percent of population depends on agriculture. Over rainfall, famine are major catrastrophics occuring once a year. This is making deliberately farmer weak. Under these circumstances farmers cannot afford for seeds as they are drowned in debts. As a sort of encouragement govenment should provide subsidies for poor farmers. In society there are many eminent people who scatter the needs of the societies, but among them farmers are the pioneer because they give food to all. Every one works for food. So, it will be rediculous if stop subsidies. |
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Abhishek Kumar Srivastava said:
(Thu, Jul 7, 2011 05:52:49 AM)
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| India is large country in term population and land. We need a large amount of food to feed them but we also know that we need rain for agricultural. Again we must know that distribution of rain is not uniform in India. And the one most thing is most of the farmers in India are poor and poorest. Agricultural sector take input as money in starting like to buy pump set fertilizers seed and many other thing. The poor Indian farmers can't bear it so they need subsidies to buy this things so that they can earn these things and earn benefit and serve the people with food. Again it is important because nearly 65% of population dependent on agricultural sector. By subsidies we cant reduce the effect of nonuniform distributional of rain cost of high quality of seed and many other epidemic. And it must grow the Indian GDP. |
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Venkat said:
(Mon, Jul 4, 2011 06:11:42 AM)
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If you stop subsidy to farmers, can you be able to think the plight of our nation. Production cost increases leads to high selling price leads to heavy burden on common people. Food commodities costs high, bringing transport cost hike, leads to high inflation. Etc. Etc. So we must not even think of stopping subsidies to agriculture.
On the other hand what can we reduce susidies is by giving these only to selected farmers mean poorest of the poor. |
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Jyotsna Yadav said:
(Sun, Jun 19, 2011 12:50:57 AM)
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NO, I am not agree with the topic which is specifying that the agricultural subsidies be stopped. Agriculture is the backbone of our country. Before independence n after also about 73% of people of our country were engaged in agriculture only. Now also the main n very important activity in our country is agriculture. I'm with the point that the government should provide more subsidies to the poor farmers.
At the time of distribution government should have all information about the farmers. Because at the time of collecting information some rich farmers try to show their financial problem. They give wrong information to the examiners so that they can get more subsidies compare to other farmers. And by doing this they becomes more financially strong. And the farmers who are poor they do not got their part of subsidies. So I want to say that the government should not stop the agricultural subsidies but before the giving of subsidies they should check the farmers status category wise n after that only they should provide subsidies to the farmers category wise. By this poor farmers can buy seeds at lower price and they can produce more effectively. So this they can earn their livelihood more. And rich farmers do not try to get more rich by cheating the government and poor farmers also.
So there should be no stoppage in the way of agricultural subsidies. Agriculture is the 1st step of development of our country.
"THANKS", please give me your feedback to tell me whether I m wrong or rite! |
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Karan said:
(Fri, Jun 17, 2011 06:37:25 AM)
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| According to my view, no body forget that agriculture is the backbone of an economy about 65% of livlehood is depentdenton agriculture. I think that govt should not stopped subsidies because half the farmers is depend on subsidies, (subsidies ood structureinframeans cash grant given by govt to the farmers, they get seeds at lower price than market price). In this way farmer get very small margin of profit. And govt should try that they should provide good infrastructre. |
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Aji said:
(Sun, Jun 5, 2011 02:05:31 AM)
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I would say that the subsidies are just shown on a fake basis only a few percentage of farmers rest all goes into the pockets of our proud polticians. There should be fully layed out plan so that whether its reaching the farmers or not cause if it reaches them and they properly utilise it they (unitedly indirectly increase our gdp thats the main thing that matters.
Hence the subsidies should be provided to the poor farmers who actually need not those who earn in lakhs per annum still manage to make a great profit by just fooling the government by taking the subsidies. :). |
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Anurag said:
(Thu, May 12, 2011 12:49:22 PM)
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NO, the agricultural subsidies are very important and they should not be completely stopped but we should stop gross subsidies I mean the government should carry out a survey of the farmers and categorize them according to their income (That must be done honestly though) and then the farmers which are actually needy the government should help them and encourage them. What happens is the government declares subsidy for poor farmers and the well to do rich farmers are the ones which take the unnecessary advantage. For eg. A couple of years back government gave free electricity to the farmers, it was seen that almost 40% of the poor farmers were not even able to afford a water pump-set on their well so the rich farmers celebrated Diwali with free electricity with their modern equipments.
So the subsidy is necessary but with a proper planning for it. |
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Shashank said:
(Tue, Apr 26, 2011 01:12:39 PM)
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| We should never forget that agriculture is the backbone of our economy because nearly 58% of them rely on that for their livelihood. So its very important for the government to continue with the subsidies and promoting agriculture. As such there is a continues decline in the percentage of agriculturists, if the subsidies are stopped then this would worsen even more leading to imbalanced situation adding to the woes of food scarcity. Moreover agricultural produce is the base of many industries and it its role in exports is indispensable. So by providing the agriculturists with various subsidies on pesticides, fertilizers, etc it would be a good form of promoting the exports thereby solving the problem of international debt to greater extent. |
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Vikas said:
(Wed, Apr 20, 2011 04:49:12 AM)
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| Goverment should help out the poor farmers for cultivating the crops much higher level, subsidies should not be stopped, if subsidie stop then our agriculture system will be worn out soon, goverment should check throughly subsidies which being given to the farmers. Farmers should take the subside benefit in right way never misuse it for personal expenses. |
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Naresh said:
(Tue, Apr 19, 2011 11:50:08 AM)
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| Population is growing very fast, so we need the feed all the people. What I want to say is expenditure on cultivation of crops are growing, so the farmers are unable to gain the profit. If the government stopped the subsidy, then there debts are growing and they not interested in agriculture. So the subsidy are continued to deserved farmers. |
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Prabha said:
(Fri, Apr 8, 2011 07:19:56 AM)
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| Hi friends, yeah India is agricultural based country and I think government is providing sufficient amount of subsidies to farmers. If needed, our government will allow more subsidies. But I want to say one thing, before issuing subsidies to farmers a thorough check or inspection have to be performed by agricultural authorities to take a right decision, whether those farmers are deserving that subsidy or not. Because now a days a lot of people are cheating government by showing false information. So I won't say subsidies should be stopped, enough subsidies should be provided to the deserving farmers. |
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Ria said:
(Thu, Apr 7, 2011 01:27:59 PM)
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| India is agricultural based country so sufficient amount of subsidy should be provided by govt. To the farmers for their betterment so that they can utilise it properly. As India's GDP is based on this, it plays an important role. |
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Sonali said:
(Wed, Mar 30, 2011 07:10:37 AM)
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| India is known for agriculture. Agriculture plays vital role in indai's Gdp which is 60%. Moverover the conditions in India are really favouriable for agriculture like soil type, monsoons. If certain subsidies are provided to farmers it will help to improve the agriculture field indirectly it will increase the gdp of India. |
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Tanmoy Saha said:
(Wed, Mar 16, 2011 02:48:45 PM)
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| Indian economy is based on agriculture.From the grass hood level of rural area to urban area every people depend very much on agriculture.Sometime we see in newspaper that farmers committed suicide due to high cost of production.first a farmer have to invest some money for cultivating.Now if the cost of invest become very higher than the production then the farmer can't get benefit.So it's become very difficult to live their life.So I think agricultural subsidies is very essential in all village in all state of India.It mostly needed in the poor state like Orissa,Jharkhand etc.So that the farmers can live their normal life throughout the year & as well as they can get enough benefit.This help our economy to grow up. |
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Farmer said:
(Sat, Mar 5, 2011 04:20:15 AM)
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| Friends, I appreciate your view as we know that agriculture is backbone of our country and if we stops subsidy we ultimately breaks our strongest power of our economy, farmer needs much help, they have become frustrated due to high cost of production they are committing suicide. In this condition govt should continuously help them by providing subsidy so they can purchase more useful agricultural equipment and increase their standard of living and can get more profit output. |
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Satishram said:
(Wed, Sep 8, 2010 02:15:08 AM)
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As far as subsidies are concern its very essential for farmers. Presently our GDP is around 8. 5%. In that 60% contribution from Agri or Agro based industries. So agriculture should given much more importance than any other sector in India. Indian agriculture is mainly depend upon monsoon. Suppose monsoon fails farmers will suffer. As they may have mortgage their lands with NBFCs. Like pawn broker.
For buying raw materials. They may charge high interest rates. That's why the GOI has waived agricultural loan of60000 crores taken by farmers from nationalized, cooperative and commercial banks. This enhance the attitude of farmers to get loans from Govt. institutions. Without subsidy agriculture sector can't survive. |
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Preeti said:
(Fri, Sep 3, 2010 01:38:52 AM)
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| I would first of all like to know if our country is giving enough subsidies for the farmers. I reckon it should be increased instead. If Village and agriculture are the backbone of our nation, Don't we have to strengthen them? If subsidies are to be stopped, there should be good water and infrastructure facility for them. And the government should take more responsibility to improve the techniques of farming. We might be growing in terms of technology but, agriculture is slowly declining. For now, waiver loans and giving them subsidies are only temporary solutions. |
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