RBI raises cap on collateral-free agricultural loans to Rs 1.6 lakh from Rs 1 lakh — move to benefit all farmers who were left out from budget proposals.
The agriculture ministry has recommended several options to provide both short and long term solutions to address agrarian distress. A final call will be taken in the cabinet meeting.
On the first day of its national convention, the BJP passed resolutions on agriculture and welfare of the poor, claiming it had done better than the UPA.
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WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Somebody here, in favour of the laws, had recommended Shekhar Gupta’s episode on how APMC removal in Bihar had helped the farmers there. He conveniently ignored the significant change in political leadership, the low base on which growth was indexed, and gave credit freely to APMC removal.
It’s indeed the case or using data for support, and not illumination. Or, as Kipling would say, ‘..twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools’.
Anyhow, hope somebody can help me understand this.
Produce is perishable, most farmers are too small to store efficiently for long, end users will pay whatever charged ( it’s food, after all), middlemen ( most of whom are busy acquiring or could acquire easily retail stores too) have the choice to stock, and are driven by profit, as they must be.
So, why would they not use this nice set up to buy cheap, sell high, and make profit?
Understand only basics of economy, and this is a genuine curiosity. Hope somebody explains.
Its fake middle men really work hard to get farmer a fair price because on the amount he gets commission if you people will remove all the middle men the corporate frims will start to buy and you will create monopoly and then farmer will have no option he has to sale his goods what that carporate firm fixed the price and the corporate frim will start abusing farmer
All experts opine that Middlemen and traders are the root cause of all the farmers problems. Nobody explains how. Can the farmers sell their produce from house to house without a chain of Middlemen. All these experts too are Middlemen only. In Tamil Nadu farmers markets were made in cities. Ultimately it was the traders who were sitting there.
Farmers have right they can seller their products, anywhere, anybody at their best price ,cutting all the hurdles, agents,brokers,cartels ,gooda couraput, people should be avoid ,to much of political interference should stop, jai hind, jay bharat, The world is watching,
Do you think the farmers leaving their farming would go market to market and sell their products…from morning till evening they would work in the lands then go in search of market? Are you aware of what you are writing or just to comment you had put these useless words?
Single seller means monopoly. Single buyer means monopsony. In monopsony single buyer and large number of sellers This reduce the bargaining power of sellers.
Good article on papers only, tell something about farmers conditions in bihar where act was repealed for more than decade. A new class of traders develop, which exploit farmers and sell in APMC mandis of punjab and haryana. Repealing will take away the market from the reach of small and marginal farmers
State Government should end APMC monopoly and chess.. since farmers and traders affected due to this… in this corona affected conditions if we want to encourage agriculture, Chess and Rent must be removed… free for farmers only
Farmers are best and good upto grow the product and at the time of sell it they sell it to the broker . It might be the reason where farmers are suffering loss .
One of the Main problem is logistic EXPENSES on goods .It can be minimized by sending CONSIGNMENTS by TRAIN .AS FROM JAMMU & FROM KALKA TO MUMBAI A LORRY BY ROAD TAKES 4DAYS TO REACH N TRAIN ONLY 2DAYS PLUS FREIGHT IS HALF .THERE SHOULD SPECIAL BOGIES FOR VEG.& FRUITS.. IFROMEVERY STARTING POINT TO DIFF.METROPOLITAN CITIES.
Congress can garner lot of its lost voter base by running a country wide agitation to REPEAL the APMC Act. BJP can hold on to their newly acquired majority vote by doing the same. Would be interesting which party is nation (loving) alistic:)
Somebody here, in favour of the laws, had recommended Shekhar Gupta’s episode on how APMC removal in Bihar had helped the farmers there. He conveniently ignored the significant change in political leadership, the low base on which growth was indexed, and gave credit freely to APMC removal.
It’s indeed the case or using data for support, and not illumination. Or, as Kipling would say, ‘..twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools’.
Anyhow, hope somebody can help me understand this.
Produce is perishable, most farmers are too small to store efficiently for long, end users will pay whatever charged ( it’s food, after all), middlemen ( most of whom are busy acquiring or could acquire easily retail stores too) have the choice to stock, and are driven by profit, as they must be.
So, why would they not use this nice set up to buy cheap, sell high, and make profit?
Understand only basics of economy, and this is a genuine curiosity. Hope somebody explains.
Its fake middle men really work hard to get farmer a fair price because on the amount he gets commission if you people will remove all the middle men the corporate frims will start to buy and you will create monopoly and then farmer will have no option he has to sale his goods what that carporate firm fixed the price and the corporate frim will start abusing farmer
All experts opine that Middlemen and traders are the root cause of all the farmers problems. Nobody explains how. Can the farmers sell their produce from house to house without a chain of Middlemen. All these experts too are Middlemen only. In Tamil Nadu farmers markets were made in cities. Ultimately it was the traders who were sitting there.
Farmers have right they can seller their products, anywhere, anybody at their best price ,cutting all the hurdles, agents,brokers,cartels ,gooda couraput, people should be avoid ,to much of political interference should stop, jai hind, jay bharat, The world is watching,
Do you think the farmers leaving their farming would go market to market and sell their products…from morning till evening they would work in the lands then go in search of market? Are you aware of what you are writing or just to comment you had put these useless words?
Single seller means monopoly. Single buyer means monopsony. In monopsony single buyer and large number of sellers This reduce the bargaining power of sellers.
Good article on papers only, tell something about farmers conditions in bihar where act was repealed for more than decade. A new class of traders develop, which exploit farmers and sell in APMC mandis of punjab and haryana. Repealing will take away the market from the reach of small and marginal farmers
State Government should end APMC monopoly and chess.. since farmers and traders affected due to this… in this corona affected conditions if we want to encourage agriculture, Chess and Rent must be removed… free for farmers only
Granted
Farmers are best and good upto grow the product and at the time of sell it they sell it to the broker . It might be the reason where farmers are suffering loss .
One of the Main problem is logistic EXPENSES on goods .It can be minimized by sending CONSIGNMENTS by TRAIN .AS FROM JAMMU & FROM KALKA TO MUMBAI A LORRY BY ROAD TAKES 4DAYS TO REACH N TRAIN ONLY 2DAYS PLUS FREIGHT IS HALF .THERE SHOULD SPECIAL BOGIES FOR VEG.& FRUITS.. IFROMEVERY STARTING POINT TO DIFF.METROPOLITAN CITIES.
Congress can garner lot of its lost voter base by running a country wide agitation to REPEAL the APMC Act. BJP can hold on to their newly acquired majority vote by doing the same. Would be interesting which party is nation (loving) alistic:)
Exactly. The whole thing of Regulated Markets is redundant as it is accedemicaly established to be retrograde. It is redundant.
One stroke of the pen is required, and it carries no fiscal cost. Low hanging fruit, waiting to be plucked.