Should Agricultural Subsidies be stopped?

Farm subsidy is essential for the development of rural India. Indian economy is dependent on agriculture for employment which also employs a lot of population both directly and indirectly.

Subsidies are direct instruments to give impetus to agricultural growth. The subsidies on power and seeds also lead to their misuse and loss to the nation. The government should rather create market for agriculture products, raise minimum support price, give cheap credits to farmers, revamp land laws and work for transfer of technology from lab to the fields. Subsidies will not kill the root problem that farmers are facing but will make them excessively dependent upon Government to rescue them in bad times. The Government Should create forward linkage for the farmers and food processing industries should boost the marketing of agri products.

Again the subsidies do not reach the ultimate land worker. The landlords who usually remain absent from farm and are not directly engaged in farmers or not at all concerned take away the benefits of the subsidy. The poor farmers remains deprived.

Subsidies are a burden to the national Finance as these are not investment. The subsidies on agriculture should be abolished in a phase manner. Also marginal farmers in tribal belt and North east should have alternate arrangements for subsidies and in time the subsidy should be replaced by cheap loans or insurance.

Hello everyone as per my opinion subsidy to farmers should not be stopped, why because 70% of Indians are depends upon the agriculture and also they are backbone to our nation economy they are scarifying their entire life to feed the world, now a days food which we are taking totally artificial with that human life also coming down now the people how depends on agriculture are decreasing day by day because of they are not getting good returns on their crops, they don't have any awareness on technology the government should give the training to the farmers for better working and should encourage to minimize the artificial fertilizers. The government should encourage the students to study the agriculture education.

Our nation India is an agricultural country. More then 70% of the population in India is dependent on Agricultural activity. Agricultural sector contributes to around 50% of our exports. Tea, Tobacco, Paper, Spices, Flowers, Oil seeds, Fruits, Vegetables etc are the major agricultural products exported from our country. Many industries like, Tractors, Fertilizer, Pesticide, Agricultural implements etc are supplying their products to agricultural sector. It also provides employment in various other sectors like transport etc. Many industries are depended on agriculture for their raw materials. Eg. Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Paper etc.

During 1950's more than 50% of the national income was contributed by agriculture. But the contribution of agriculture is gradually diminishing and now it has come down to almost 13%. Now-a-days, the traditional farmers have a tendency to switch over from agricultural activity. In view of the above, we need to promote agricultural sector and the same is possible only through subsiding the inputs for agriculture like fertilizer, pesticides, implements, equipment's etc. Any move for stopping subsidy in agricultural sector would be suicidal.

No matter how great our country is in the agricultural field, still the people of our country perish and even die of hunger. For providing poor people with basic necessity such as food, government has introduced "SUBSIDY". But these subsidies are not beneficial for the long run.

In fact, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan warned India against populist subsidies as it would be difficult to end such relief once granted. The government should review it's policies instead of providing subsidies.

India exports bulks of agricultural goods but instead, if these goods are sold out to the public, the prices (inflation) would be under control and nobody will have to sleep with an empty stomach. For some, subsidies is a dire need (although it should be temporary) but for some, it is a way to save some bucks. One should not create a situation where people do not value it.

The best choice would be to first reform the policies, grant people food at an affordable and bearable price and then stop the subsidy. Hope the government is listening!

Subsidy of agriculture should not be stopped. Our farmer still having technological, pricing problems. Most importantly today most of the green lands are converted into residential colonies, eczs, so some of the remaining farmers need subsidies.

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.

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 subsidies 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 unnecessarily the benefit from the subsidies which are meant for poor farmers. Govt must collect the information regarding the economic status of the farmers, then it should distribute subsidies. 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"lenient, it should be Smart enough" to do justice with farmers and not let the to cheat it.

Hi,

In my opinion agricultural subsidies should be given. Because in India agriculture is considered as the backbone of the economy. Farmers will grow the crops for getting some profit. But to get that profit farmers may not have enough money to invest in the crops. For support to the farmers financially these subsidies must be given. Also these subsidies should be reached out to everyone not only some people and they should be given properly. Therefore it is the responsibility of the government to provide the subsidies to the farmers properly.

Govt should give importance to the agriculture sector because most of the population of India is engaged in agriculture sector so, government should be subsidies the agricultural input like fertiliser, seeds, irrigation and electricity.

We all know that in our India most of the peoples were farmers and high production was there in our India. But now a days people is not interested in agriculture field. The government gives many subsidies and helpful things for farmers but the things is not getting to them because the government offices and panjayath offices are disturbing the by asking many proofs and asking money. Therefor we people and government should understand these things and must do something to overcome this problems.