Should Agricultural Subsidies be stopped?

In my view, agricultural subsidies are required to some extent, and that too for needy farmers only! Because more and more granting of subsidies may lead to over gain by farmers. And also the absence of subsidies may lead to a decrease in inequity between the rich and poor in case of their purchasing power. Hence government must take proper reforms to allocate subsidies only to needy people and they should ensure that there are no middlemen or intermediaries who may reap some profits from the subsidies. Therefore subsidies can be given in some correct proportion to the farmers.

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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.

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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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.

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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In my point of view, subsidies to the farmers is most important for their products and also increase in productivity and GDP of the country. But the main reason of the subsidy scheme is getting low income and low MSP to the farmers. Because farmers are using old method of operations and machines. So the government had to think to give awareness on new techniques on farming systems and patterns and irrigation facilities then farmers will get high profits and increase the GDP level. Subsidy will give them in difficult situations like cyclones. For get recover from damage to the crops.

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.

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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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.

No - As per my opinion, any kind of subsidy given to farmers and the poor people of India should not be reduced or abandoned. I agree to the fact that nowadays our agriculture is not contributing much to national income as comparing to the era of post independence, but we should remember that this agriculture is feeding lakhs of farmers and their families in our country. Our country need to diminish the gap, which has occurred between upper class and lower class. For that government must have its policies to subsidize the poor living below standards & not by stopping subsidy.