Should Agricultural Subsidies be stopped?

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.

Yes, the subsidies provided to poor farmers by giving them at lower prices for purchasing fertilizers, seeds, cheaper electricity for agriculture activities, cheaper agriculture bank loans, purchasing farm equipment at lower bank loans etc. But this has only negative impacts on our economy. We are dependent on import for fertilizers needs, therefore it is foreign currency reserves loss. The subsidized fertilizers do not have proper distribution mechanism this only increases the black marketing and sold the fertilizers to simple & illiterate farmers at the higher rates. Even the bank official demand bribe from farmers for agricultural loans.

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.

Hi Guys,

As we all aware with the condition of agriculture of our country that is still in very bad stage and this is the main duty of the government that they continue help agriculture with the help of different-2 forms as per farmers needs. We all know about the corruption in our country which we keep on facing in our day to day life even if we are literate. Being a farmer selling crops at all, its very difficult in market because big buyers of the crops try to be crooked with the farmers during the deals and they get loss nothing else. So there shouldn't be any kind of even low scale in providing agriculture subsidies.

Thanks.

Hi.

In my view subsidy in agriculture should not be stopped instead the process of reaching the subsidy to the farmers to be made foolproof by linking it to direct credit in banks account. If government stop paying subsidy to farmers who are almost 75% of our population and contributing to only 25% of GDP they will not be able to survive on agriculture as they are dependent for their products not only on market but also on good whether and sometimes they loss their produces for the bad whether. So for the survival of poor agriculturist and to feed the large population of India it is necessary to support the agri sector.

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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.

It should be reformed it is a corruption that named a subsidy.

A piece of agri equipment that subsidies by government you can have in 1000 Rs but if you want to get that equipment by subsidy.

It would be substandard and cost you 1200 by that you will get 250 Rs subsidy and it would cost you 950+ 2 month time to sanction subsidy and a month waiting to deposit in your account.

This is the case in biogas, water pump, thresher, Tyre etc.

I am a farmer subsidy in India is only for politician, higher officer, companies like iffco, and store keeper, orthopedist dealer for government supply.

Farmer stands nowhere in subsidy.

Agriculture subsidy should not be stopped but the agriculture policy, implementation process and budget allocation should be revised. Owing to rigid implementation process most of the farmers special small, marginal and women farmers are deprived of the goverment schemes and programmes. For example, As you know, women are working longer hour in agriculture field from transplanting to post harvesting management but only 5% of women having landholding (Pata) remaining 95% of women farmers have no Pata. Due to nonavailability of Pata, they are deprived of the credit facility and also other government schemes and programmes.

Subsidy are important to boost agricultural sector and to fulfill need of the increasing population. But subsidy should be targeted one and misuse should stop otherwise what happen our fertilizer illegally send via black marketing to our nearby countries (bhutan, b'desh, nepal). Subsidy should be minimized step by step and it will make farmer become less dependent and will increase production by finding new innovative ways, like MNREGA study done by ICAR they found machination of farm increase after increase in labour wages. Subsidy should given to particular component like electricity subsidy lead to overuse of water.

When we consider countries like India. Agriculture is the backbone to the country and contributes lions share to our national income but unfortunately agriculture not only in our country but in many countries is still dependent in rainfall which cannot be determined certainly. So that government should take several initiatives to provide some benefits to farmer who is the primary stakeholder one of the initiative is providing subsidy to the crop so that farmers feel secured and this prevents farmers commiting suicides. Hence agricultural subsides are boon to some extent if properly implemented at right time.