CONDITION OF FARMERS IN INDIAVIKRAM, SHARAN,SRISTHI,SUVEER

CONTENTS

1) INTRODUCTION

2) THE TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

3) SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STANDING OF AN

INDIAN FARMER

4) FARMER CRISIS

5) INDIAN FARMER v/s FARMERS OF THE

WORLD

6) CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Agriculture is one of the strongholds of the Indian economy and accounts for 14.6 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009-10, and 10.23 per cent (provisional) of the total exports

The total geographical area of India is 328.7 million hectares of which 140.3 million hectares is net sown area, while 193.7 million hectares is the gross cropped area, according to the Annual Report 2009-10 of the Ministry of Agriculture.

INTRODUCTION

India has about 1,129,866,154 people in it This makes India's foods need the second highest on the planet

Surprisingly, nearly 3/4ths of the workers in India are engaged in feeding the nation

Major agricultural products include rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry and fish

TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

They typical farmer is poor. They are unable to provide more than the vary basic needs for their families.

The agricultural system in India is not uniform everywhere but the plight of the farmers is almost similar across the nation. In the past Zamindars use to torture the farmers. Farmers had to work in their own land and give a major part of cultivation to the Zamindars. Now-a-days strict tenancy laws have been introduced to make things for the Indian farmer

TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

The India farmer however does not understand these laws very clearly. An illiterate man, working all day in the fields has hardly any time in the busy season to organize farmer union or to agitate for reforms.

About 75% of Indian population depends on agriculture for their livelihood. The Indian farmer is idle for about 6 months so it is easy to imagine that poverty is very much prevail among Indian masses.

TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

though the farmer works the hardest he does not get what he get out of the soil. The tools and implements he employs are pre-historic in design. There is no scientific agriculture in India. Manure of a very crude kind is utilized.

The moral of it is that he is poor and the methods suggested to better his condition are too expensive to be used by him.

TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

The Indian farmer lives in a small village where life proceeds at a much slower pace than it does in the towns and cities.

There is hardly any medical aid available. The village school with the starving school master and shabby scholars presents a said spectacle indeed.

The rich man, the only well fed man in the village, sits in his shop waiting for a likely victim with the patience of a beast of prey.

TYPICAL INDIAN FARMER

Such then is the life of the Indian farmer. What the farmer wants above everything is enough food to feed himself and his family. It is this simple, primary need of the Indian farmer that a highly patriotic Government of India failed to satisfy during its regime. Under no circumstances a person who feeds the whole nation, a farmer be allowed to starve.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STANDING OF AN INDIAN FARMER

They typical farmer is poor. They are unable to provide more than the vary basic needs for their families.

Wages are so poor for most farmers, that some resort to the selling of their children to others--often in involuntary servitude (slavery) to brick kilns, rice mills, and embroidery factories,

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STANDING OF AN INDIAN FARMER

The condition of the farmers in India has not changed much even after independence. They are still dependent on the rain god for water and politicians for fixing remunerative prices. 

The prices at which crops and fruits are bought from the farmers is very less when compared to the price at which they are sold.

E.G. – during the mango season, Alponso mangoes are bought at rupees 50 for a kilo and are sold at at least a 200% profit

SOCIAL STANDING

An Indian farmer is not at given much importance even though India salutes its soldiers and farmers

He does have a social status He is way below the poverty line ( with

some exceptions)

ECONOMICAL STANDING

A typical farmer is poor For him to get his meal daily is a big

thing His living conditions are very sad He doesn’t have money to aid him in

farming Some times he doesn’t have enough

money to sustain him self when there is no crop

FARMER CRISIS

One of the most common crisis faced by most of the farmers is lack of infrastructure and money.

The methods of farming are still ancient which effect the production and yield of crops

 In fact poverty, ignorance and immobility to use modern farm machinery and technique go hand in hand with our farmers. Without the purchasing power, how can a farmer get the modern machinery even when he is told about it?

FARMER SUICIDE

Most of the farmers have burden of loans from Banks and private money lenders, which they are not able to return and hence, have Io take extreme step like suicide etc

In the 1990s India woke up to a spate of farmers suicides

As per the latest study conducted by a Chennai based institute and leading English daily “The Hindu” which states that about 2.5 lakh farmers across India committed suicide due to agriculture related problems in between years 1997-2009.

FARMER SUICIDE

In an interview on November 15, 2005, with the Indian Express, Sharad Pawar stated: “The farming community has been ignored in this country and especially so over the last eight to 10 years. The total investment in the agriculture sector is going down... You will be surprised in the budgetary provision, not more than 2 percent has been allocated for agriculture

FARMER SUICIDE In April 2007 an NGO named Green Earth Social Development

Consulting brought out a report after doing an audit of the state and central government relief packages in Vidarbha. The report's conclusions were:

Farmers' demands were not taken into count while preparing the relief package. Neither were civil society organisations, local government bodies, panchayats etc consulted.

The relief packages were mostly amalgamations of exiting schemes. Apart from the farmer helpline and the direct financial assistance, there was scarcely anything new being offered. Pumping extra funds into additional schemes shows that no new idea was applied to solve a situation where existing measures had obviously failed.

The farmer helpline did not give any substantial help to farmers The basis for selection of beneficiaries under the assistance scheme was

not well-defined. Also, type of assistance to be given led to problems like a farmer needing a pair of bullocks getting a pump set and vice versa (or a farmer who has no access to water sources being given pump sets)

Awareness regarding the package was also fairly low.

FARMER SUICED

The farmer helpline did not give any substantial help to farmers

The basis for selection of beneficiaries under the assistance scheme was not well-defined. Also, type of assistance to be given led to problems like a farmer needing a pair of bullocks getting a pump set and vice versa (or a farmer who has no access to water sources being given pump sets)

Awareness regarding the package was also fairly low.

FARMER SUICIDE

Peepli Live (2010) was a satire based on two struggling farmers burdened with loans, who go to seek help and end up with the solution of suicide to get a government grant to help repay the loan.

INDIAN FARMER v/s FARMERS IN THE USA

INDIAN FARMER The average Indian farm family works 80

hours per week, through 40 or more weeks in the year, and earns about $3,000.00 a year. His wife and children work with him in the field.Few have telephones, computers, or other modern equipment. Most don't even own a tractor.

INDIAN FARMER

Indian farmer is always in lack. Either he doesn’t have money to buy seeds for his crops, or he cannot sustain his crops or he is deep in loan.

Indian farmers struggle and strive for a good yield

AMERICAN FARMER

A farmer in the US works very hard (80+ hours per week) during certain key periods (planting, harvesting, etc.) and significantly less hard during most of the year. The average American farm family earns $60,000.00 a year.

He has a very comfortable lifestyle. Farming methods are very modern which

make farming for him easier and more convinient.

CONCLUSION

Even though India is know for agriculture. This sector is very underdeveloped. The farmer that feeds the nation is hungry himself.

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