Should Agricultural Subsidies be stopped?

Indian economy was totally a agrarian economy at the time of independence. Agriculture sector had almost 50% of its share in the economy. But presently service sector contributes very huge amount in the Indian economy, this is because of the bad condition of the farmers. Agriculture hugely depends upon climate, weather conditions and we can say that on nature. To invest in this sector is very risk thing. But Nowadays to invest in other sectors is more beneficial than this one.

So to boost farmers to remain in this field it is very necessary and important to provide subsidies to the farmers. Subsidy given by the central government totally depends upon the state government efforts. Recently lot of money was given to punjab and Haryana farmers because of less rain in these areas. So to boost agriculture exports it is very important to motivate the farmers by giving them financial help.

Hi everyone,

According to me, agricultural subsidies should not be stopped. India is the country where the majority of the population are dependant on agriculture for carrying out their livelihood. Though they contribute a considerable part to the GDP, unfortunately, they are the ones who live in poverty, especially the small and marginal farmers. Now, the prices of equipment are increasing I the market whereas their income are the same. From where would they buy latest technology and equipment to improve their production and productivity to meet the increasing demands of the population and rising competition in the market. They would definitely require agricultural subsidies to meet those requirements. So in my view, it shouldn't be stopped. Thank you.

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.

Hello friends,

India is a agricultural based country. Agriculture supplies 16.6% of our GDP and 50% of our work force. But we have to accept that in India farmers are the poorest peoples in our country. So, subsidy is needed. But with subsidy our govt should take some more steps as well. The steps are,

1. Govt should educate our farmers.

2. Subsidies should be monitored properly so that all can enjoy those subsidy, not only the rich peoples.

3. In some part of our country the subsidized goods are sold at lower price to neighboring countries. Our govt should take proper steps to control those things.

Agricultural subsidies should be stopped as they are not reaching poor farmers.

In my opinion, the agricultural subsidies shouldn't be stopped. Because as we know around 75% of people in our country are directly and indirectly dependant upon agriculture and we also know howthe most of the farmers in our country live in miserable conditions. Getting two times of food is very difficult for them. Then how can we want them to work in field in difficult situations and produce food for us if they have don't money to invest. Atlest. The government Should help them by giving them subsidies.

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.

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.

My point of view the agricultural subsidies for those farmer who having marginal and small scale farmer it's important for increasing their agricultural quality production and also helpful for increasing National Agricultural Production 80 % farmer are depend on agriculture subsidies. Agricultural Subsidies is most important factor for increasing agricultural production.

In my opinion government should prefer subsidies as one of the former P.M Lal Bahudar Shastri quoted a slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kissan" which shows the importance of agriculture in our country. As food is ours necessity but if the production becomes low then how we sustain in this world. Government should make efficient which is helpful for all needy farmers.