Should Agricultural Subsidies be stopped?

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.

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.

Farm subsidies are always for the short term. The real problem is not money.

Some facts to highlight this view:

1. We can't increase the net sown area more than 11% of land area and we are almost near that avg.

2. Agriculture is dependent on many unpredictable factors like monsoon, climatic variation. Etc.

And we can add many more.

Money cannot at any time can alter this.

And agriculture takes almost 70% of available water and we can't increase the share anymore.

So my view is that we should provide subsidies only for the short term. And we must slowly shift our agricultural practice itself. Move to dry farming, use of genetically modified crops, use of organic fertilizers, plant resistant to climate and drought, use of innovative bio technological ideas, technology transfer, land consolidation, minimum support price so that farmer can apply his proven techniques in new seeds and methods, open up many research universities with farmers participation in experiments and trial tests.

We need to invest in such fields until then subsidy is needed to keep the farming community alive.

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.

No, agricultural subsidies should be continue. If it is stopped many small farmers will stop doing agriculture. If they stop doing agriculture than imports of agriculture products will increase and exports of agricultural products will increase. Through this our rupee value will decrease.

Hello friends.

Agriculture is a most important factor in our life. We are already know if agriculture dose not have so we can not survive. We are dependent on agriculture. Agriculture do by the formers. Lets come on subsidies for agriculture. First we analyze who can do agriculture. Most of the formers poor if subsidies no give to formers. So formers leave the agriculture and we are also know economy also depends on agriculture. In agriculture formers get profit most of the time but get loss also. In nowadays climate system are change so formers bear loss in agriculture and we know formers depends on only agriculture system if government do not give subsidies so formers how can manage agriculture and than may be leave. So, that should not stopped subsidies.

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.

In my opinion, it should not be stopped agriculture subsidies because 75% people are dependingon agriculture. And the former are not get the real price their grain. The former purchase the seeds so worthy but when they sell their grain they did not get their price according to their hard work.

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.

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.